The head part was not to be found.
"What's the dangling things in front of the man's breast?" asked
Frank.
"Legs!" replied Ned.
"I never knew a man to wear his legs up there!" laughed Frank.
"But you have known men to lift kids to their backs and let their
little legs hang down in front for handles? What?"
"Never thought of that?" Frank exclaimed.
"If we only had the face!" Ned worried.
Then he paused a moment and went back to the print carrying the
strange face.
"Here it is!" he said. "See! This is the same man. There are the
boots and the buttons. The camera caught the man twice."
"I don't know why you didn't see some of these things when the
pictures were made," laughed Frank. "Next time I go out taking
snapshots I'm going to study the landscape, so I can choose subjects
for my pictures!"
"All this means," Ned began, "that we were watched when we were
taking the pictures that afternoon. These people were looking at us!
We might as well have been walking through an open street."
"But why didn't they do something to you, then?" demanded Frank.
"They captured the ones who entered the workroom."
"Those were counterfeiters, not abductors."
"Well, then, they caught Jimmie and lugged him away?"
"In an effort to drive us out of the country, yes.
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