It did not appear to have been harmed, but a glance
showed that the door of the gasoline compartment had been unlocked
and was open. Tom jumped down into his craft.
"Some one has been at that compartment again!" he murmured. "I
wonder if it was the same man who acted so suspiciously at the
auction? What can his object be, anyhow?"
The next moment he uttered an exclamation of startled surprise and
picked up something from the bottom of the boat. It was a bunch
of keys, with a tag attached, bearing the owner's name.
"Andy Foger!" murmured Tom. "So this is, how he was trying to get
even! Maybe he started to put a hole in the tank or in my boat."
CHAPTER VI
TOWING SOME GIRLS
With a sense of anger mingled with an apprehension lest some harm
should have been done to his craft, the owner of the ARROW went
carefully over it. He could find nothing wrong. The engine was
all right and all that appeared to have been accomplished by the
unbidden visitor was the opening of the locked forward
compartment. That this had been done by one of the many keys on
Andy Foger's ring was evident.
"Now what could have been his object?" mused Tom. "I should think
if he wanted to put a hole in the boat he would have done it
amidships, where the water would have a better chance to come in,
or perhaps he wanted to flood it with gasoline and--"
The idea of fire was in Tom's mind, and he did not finish his
half-completed thought.
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