As the men
went under several aliases there is no need of giving their
names. It is to be doubted if they ever used their real ones--or
if they had any.
Of course, there was quite a sensation when Mr. Nestor was
found, and a greater one when it became known the part the
Universal Flying Machine people had in his disappearance in
mistake for Tom. The officials of the company were indicted, and
several of the minor ones sent to jail but Gale and Ware escaped
by remaining abroad.
It came out that they both knew of the acts of Lydane and his
companion in crime, and that the two officials realized the
mistake that had been made by their clumsy operatives. It was
believed that this knowledge led to the visit of Gale to Tom, the
time the latter's suspicions were first aroused. Gale made a
clumsy attempt to clear his own skirts of the conspiracy, but in
vain, though he did escape his just punishment.
What had happened, in brief, was this. Gale and Ware, unable to
secure Tom's services, even by the offer of a large sum of money,
had stooped to the sending of spies to his shop, to get
possession of information about his silent motor.
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