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"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
will, did he?" asked Tom.
"No, I can't say that he did," was the answers "They looked to
me, and acted like, business men looking over land, or something
like that. They just turned in on the road that leads to the old
hunting cabin, as we call it around here, and didn't pay any
attention to me. Then I forgot all about them."
"Neither of them could have been Mr. Nestor," decided Tom.


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