"Gone!" replied Paul.
"In an auto," added Russ.
"My auto," corrected the doctor. "The impertinent chap had the nerve
to take my machine, and I need it, too."
"I'll get him!" cried Sandy, as he clapped his heels to the side of
his panting horse.
"You can never get him while he's in that machine!" called Paul.
"Maybe the auto will have a break-down!" the young farmer answered
over his shoulder. "Such things have happened."
"Indeed they have--to me often enough," remarked the doctor. "I have
had more break-downs in that car than I like to remember. But just
when we want one, so we may be able to catch that scoundrel, it may
not happen."
"If Mr. Sneed was here he'd be sure to cause something to happen,"
remarked Russ, jokingly. Sandy galloped on down the road after the
mysterious man in the automobile he had so daringly taken.
CHAPTER XXII
CAUGHT
There was considerable excitment about Oak Farm when Russ and Paul
returned from their unsuccessful chase after the mysterious man,
leaving Sandy to continue the hunt. All the players, and a number of
the hired men, were discussing the occurrence, and eagerly
questioning Ruth and Alice as to what they knew and had seen. This
was little enough, however.
When Russ and Paul came up, still breathing hard after their run,
they added what they knew.
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