"I'll say we have," said Tom.



Chapter XII

The Try-Out Day Arrives


It did not need Ned Newton's story of what he had overheard at
the bank to prove that an attempt had been made to blow to pieces
Tom Swift's electric locomotive before even it had been tested.

An examination of the water-soaked package in the open yard of
the shops of the Swift Construction Company, proved that there
was enough explosive in the bomb to blow the shed itself to
pieces. But the stopping of the clockwork attachment of course
made the bomb harmless.

"The main thing to be explained," Tom said, when he and his
father and Ned discussed the particulars of the affair, "is not
who did it, or what it was done for. Those are comparatively easy
questions to answer."

"Yes," agreed Ned. "O'Malley did it, or caused it to be done;
and it was an attempt to balk Mr. Bartholomew and the H, & P. A.
rather than a direct attack upon the Swift Construction Company."

"I am afraid, however," remarked Mr. Swift, "that Tom has
aroused the personal antagonism of this spy from the West. We