"Want to come and have a look?" asked Harry, as Ned paused
in the patch of woods, which were in deeper darkness than
the rest of the countryside, for night was fast falling.

"Have a look at what?" asked Ned, who was thinking many
thoughts just then.

"At the elephant I saw back of the Swift factory. I
wouldn't be skeered if you came along."

"Well, I'm going over to see Tom Swift, anyhow," answered
Ned, "so I'll walk that way. You can come if you like. I
don't care about spying on other people's property--"

"I wasn't spyin'!" exclaimed Harry quickly. "I just
happened to look. And then I seen something."

"Well, come on," suggested Ned. "If there's anything
there, we'll have a peep at it."

His idea was not to try to see what Tom was evidently
endeavoring to conceal, but it was to observe whence Harry
had made his observation, and be in a position to tell Tom
to guard against unexpected lookers-on from that direction.

During the walk back along the course over which Harry had
run so rapidly a little while before, Ned and the boy talked
of what the latter had seen.