"Have I
been so impolite as to sleep during part of your talk? I don't
understand what you are driving at."
"Oh, I thought you did," said Gale, and he showed surprise. "I
understood that the man who--"
"Do you mean there was some one here in the shed last night?"
cried the young inventor suddenly, all his suspicions aroused.
"Some one here last night?" repeated Mr. Gale. "No, I don't
refer to last night. But perhaps I am making a mistake.
I--er--I--"
"Some one is making a mistake!" said Tom significantly.
CHAPTER XIX
ANOTHER FLIGHT
For perhaps a quarter of a minute Tom Swift and the president
of the Universal Flying Machine Company of New York sat staring
at one another. Mr. Gale's face wore a puzzled expression, and so
did Tom's. And, after the last remark of the young inventor, the
man who had called to see him said:
"Well, perhaps we are talking at cross purposes. I don't blame
you for not feeling very friendly toward us, and if I had had my
way that last correspondence with you would never have left our
office."
"It wasn't very business-like," said Tom dryly, referring to
the veiled threats when he had refused to sell his services to
the rival company.
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