Then, as their eyes
became accustomed to the gloom, they could make out objects with
greater distinctness.
A movement in a tree, just outside the broken window, attracted
the attention of Andy.
"Here's something!" he cried.
He raised his gun, which he had caught up as he rushed from the
house, and fired high enough in the air, so as not to hurt
whoever was in hiding. The flash of the weapon showed a man in
the act of sliding down the trunk.
"Catch him!" cried Jack.
They all made a rush for the tree, but the flash of Andy's gun,
while it revealed the man to them, also had the effect of
momentarily blinding the men and boys. For an instant they could
see nothing, and when the effect of the flash passed away the man
was not in sight in the semi-gloom. They could hear him running
through the underbrush outside of the garden, however, and took
after him.
But the crazy machinist, if indeed it was he, got away, and after
a vain search through the garden and about the machine shed, they
all returned to the house, Mr. Roumann and the professor having
joined in the hunt.
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