"Now, the less we discuss this matter the better!" interrupted
Tom. "Lydane, as you call the man with the gold tooth didn't
really do anything to me nor any great harm to any of my
possessions, as far as I can learn. His career is a closed book--
a book with muddy covers!" and the young inventor laughed.
"Oh, well, if you look at it that way, there is nothing further
for me to say" said Mr. Gale stiffly. "I understood-- But hasn't
my partner, Mr. Ware, seen you?" he asked Tom quickly.
"No. And I don't care to see him."
"Oh, then that accounts for it," was the quick answer. "Well,
if you regard the matter as closed I suppose we should also. We
are not to blame for what Lydane does when he is no longer in our
employ, and we repudiate anything he may do, or may have done."
This struck Tom, afterward, as being rather a queer remark, but
he did not think so at the time.
The truth was that the young inventor wished very much to try
out a new device on his noiseless aeroplane and wanted to get rid
of Mr. Gale before doing so. So he did not pay as much attention
to the remarks of the president as, otherwise, he might have
done.
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