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Book, page 131 / 152 there are signs which show some one has been sleeping there and eating there." "There has!" exclaimed the farmer. "Well, I didn't know that." "I did," said his son, a young man about Tom's age. "I meant to speak of it the other day. I saw an automobile turn into the old road that the men used when they built the shack. I thought it was kind of queer to see a touring car turn in there, and I meant to speak of it, but I forgot. Yes, some one has been at the old cabin lately." "Do you know who they are?" asked Tom eagerly. "We are looking for a Mr. Nestor, who disappeared mysteriously about two weeks ago, and I just found his wallet there in the shack!" "You did!" exclaimed Mr. Bloise. "That's queer! You relatives of this Mr. Nestor?" he asked. "Not exactly," Tom answered. "Just very close friends." "Well, it's too bad about his being missing in that way," went on the farmer. "I read about it in the paper, but I never suspected he was around here." "Oh, we're not sure that he was," said Tom quickly. "Finding his wallet doesn't prove that," and he told the story of his own and Jackson's appearance on the scene, to the no small wonder of the farmer and his family. Tom said nothing about the finding of the files, nor the evidence he deduced from them. That was another matter to be taken up later. "Who were in the auto you saw?" asked Tom of the farmer's son. "Was Mr. Nestor in the car?" "I couldn't be sure of that. There were two men in the machine, and they were both strangers to me. They were talking together, pretty earnestly, it seemed to me." "One did not appear as if he was being taken away against his
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