Tom Swift repeated, to the girl his theory of what had happened
with an assumption of confidence he did not altogether feel.
His prediction of a speedy end to the suspense did not come
true that day, nor for many days. No news was heard of Mr.
Nestor. After the first day, when there was no information and
when no reports came of any one of his description having been
hurt in an automobile accident or having been taken to any
hospital, the police started an energetic search.
The authorities in all near-by cities were notified, and all
thought of keeping from the public what had happened was given
over. Tom's story, of how he and Mr. Damon had heard the cry for
help on the lonely meadow, was printed in the papers, though the
young inventor did not say that he had been out trying his new
aeroplane. That was a detail not needed in the finding of Mr.
Nestor.
But Mary's father was not found. The mystery regarding his
disappearance deepened, and there was no trace of him after he
had left Tom's house that eventful evening. Persons living along
the roads he might have taken in riding his bicycle were
questioned, but they had seen nothing of him, nor were they aware
of any accident.
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