CHAPTER IV

A NIGHT OF WORRY About nine o’clock on the night when Tom Swift had witnessed the strange actions of the man who so mysteriously disappeared, the telephone bell tinkled in the Swift home. As Tom’s father was reading a scientific book in which he was much engrossed, Mrs. Baggert went to the instrument. Half-interested in the conversation, Mr. Swift listened to the one-sided talk, hearing Mrs. Baggert say: “Oh, how do you do, Miss Nestor? No, Tom isn’t here. I haven’t seen him since supper. His father is here. Do you…