Carolyn Keene_Nancy Drew Mysteries 046 by The Invisible Intruder

Author:The Invisible Intruder
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Women Detectives, Detective and Mystery Stories, Girls & Women, Mystery & Detective, Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Fiction, General, Mystery Fiction, Women Sleuths, Nancy (Fictitious Character), Drew, Mystery and Detective Stories
ISBN: 9780448195469
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1969-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XII

Code Identification

THERE was no conversation as Nancy and the two detectives retraced their steps. Nancy’s heart was heavy. She was convinced that Ned had been kidnapped and taken from the area.

Noticing Nancy’s quiet, worried mood, Sergeant Brothers said, “We’ll make every effort to find your friend. I suppose it’s small comfort to you, but you’ve put us on the track of something I strongly suspect is not a legitimate operation.”

Nancy smiled wanly. “Please let me know what you learn from the owner of the shack.”

“I will,” the officer promised.

As they neared the embankment, Nancy noticed a third car on the road. The detectives saw it too and got ready for possible trouble.

They had just cautioned Nancy to stay behind them while they investigated, when four young people stepped from the car and one of the girls called, “Hi, Nancy!”

Detective Peron looked at the young detective. “Do you know them?”

“My best friends,” she replied, a note of relief in her voice.

“Where’s Ned?” Burt inquired as Nancy and the detectives climbed the embankment.

“We don’t know,” Nancy replied.

She introduced Bess, George, Burt, and Dave to the police officers. Then the conversation turned to the mystery. The newcomers were briefed on the present situation.

“Ned has been kidnapped?” George cried unbelievingly.

“We’re afraid so,” Nancy answered. “We don’t know where to look for him.”

Bess remarked, “You must have had some frightful moments when you saw that lifeless form and thought he was Ned.”

“I certainly did,” Nancy agreed. She looked at the car in which the young people had come from town. “Did you borrow this from Helen and Jim?”

“Yes,” Dave replied. “Do you want us to go on a search for Ned?”

Sergeant Brothers said he thought this was useless at the moment. The police would send out a missing-person alarm.

“I think it would be best for you young people to return to the motel and wait for some word from us.”

Burt and George decided they would ride with Nancy and bolster her spirits. They were careful, however, not to be oversolicitous, and talked calmly about their speculations. George was positive that the Prizers and Madame Tarantella were back of the whole mystery.

“But their motive eludes me,” she said.

Burt suggested hopefully that Ned might not have been kidnapped. “He could have hidden in the back of the car or truck that dropped off the gorilla who attacked you, Nancy.”

“He seemed like a gorilla, all right,” Nancy said with a smile.

“Burt is right,” George added. “I’ll bet Ned will return with a big surprise.”

Nancy hoped so, but she was well aware that her friends were trying to cheer her up. When they reached the motel, she insisted upon staying in her room.

“I want to be right by the telephone if any calls come. The police may phone or someone else.”

She did not mention Ned’s name, but Bess and George knew he was uppermost in her thoughts.

“Aren’t you coming to supper?” Bess queried.

Nancy shook her head. “I’ll have a tray sent here.”

There was no dissuading her so Bess said she would attend to ordering it.

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