Tom and Mr. Damon looked in the direction of the sound, and the
young inventor flashed his light. But there was a clump of bushes
and trees at that point and the electrical rays did not penetrate
very far.
"Some one's over there!" exclaimed Tom in a whisper. "We'd
better go and see what it is."
"All right," agreed Mr. Damon, and he, too, spoke in a low
voice.
Why they did this when their previous talk had been in ordinary
tones, and when Tom had shouted so loudly, they did not stop to
reason about or explain just then. But later they both admitted
that they whispered because they thought there was something
wrong on foot--because they feared a crime was being committed
and they wanted to surprise the perpetrators if they could.
And it was this fact of their whispering that enabled the two
to hear something that, otherwise, they might not have heard. And
this was the sound of some vehicle hurrying away--an automobile,
if Tom was any judge. The cries for help had been succeeded by
stifled vocal sounds, and these, in turn, by the noise of wheels
on the ground.
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