"
"I should say not!" cried Tom.
"Did they treat you brutally, Mr. Nestor?" asked Mr. Damon.
"Not after they found out who I was, by looking through my
wallet. Of course they didn't behave very decently, but they
weren't actually cruel, except that they bound and gagged me. Oh,
but I'm glad you came, Tom! How did it happen?"
Then they told Mr. Nestor their story, and how the test of the
new Air Scout had led to his rescue.
"But where are the Secret Service men?" asked Mr. Terrill, when
it became evident that none them was on guard at the cabin.
Later it developed that, by following a false clew, the Secret
Service men had been drawn miles away from the cabin. And only
that Tom and his companions in the silent airship saw the men.
Mr. Nestor might not have been rescued for some further time.
His version of what had happened was correct. He had been
mistaken for Tom, and the spy with the gold tooth and his
accomplice had waylaid Mary's father, under the belief that it
was Tom Swift with the plans of the new silent motor. Mr. Nestor
had been attacked while riding his wheel in a lonely place, and
had been carried off and kept in hiding, a prisoner even after
his identity became known.
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