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Nestor, wherever
he is."
"They'll do their best," said Mr. Terrill. "I'm a member of
that body," he went on, "and I'll give my personal attention to
the matter."
Then followed a busy time. Tom did not get to bed until nearly
morning. For he had to arrange to send some of his men to guard
the stranded airship, and then he went to see Mary and her
mother, taking them the good news that the search for Mr. Nestor
would be prosecuted with unprecedented vigor.
"If it isn't too late!" sadly said the missing man's wife.
"Oh, I'm sure it isn't !" declared Tom.
In addition to sending a guard to the airship, other men, some
of them hastily summoned from the nearest federal agency, were
sent to keep watch in the vicinity of the lonely cabin. They had
orders to arrest whoever approached, and a relay of the men was
provided, so that watch could be kept up night and day. Besides
this, other men from the Secret Service began scouring the
country around the locality of the cabin, seeking a trace of the
two persons the farmer's son had seen in the automobile.


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