"What about Narko himself? Has he talked yet?"
Norris replied that although he had not interviewed Narko himself, FBI
agents who had grilled the spy had failed to elicit any information.
"Here's something else, though, which might interest you," Norris went
on. "We now have reports that at the time of the Harkness and Medfield
disasters, seismographs recorded simultaneous quakes off the coast of
Alaska near the Aleutian chain. Tremors were also felt off the southwest
coast of South America."
A new factor to consider! Tom frowned in puzzlement as he hung up the
telephone after completing his talk with the FBI man.
After Tom had repeated the conversation to his companions, Bud said,
"You mean the H-bomb idea goes out the window?"
Tom shrugged. "Wes says they've found no evidence to support the theory
of man-produced underground blasts. It just doesn't jibe with those
other remote tremors. They'd be too much of a coincidence, happening at
the same time!"
"Then the quakes at Harkness and Medfield were real earthquakes!" Sandy
put in.
"Looks that way," Tom admitted. "Those other tremors Wes mentioned
follow a natural circum-Pacific belt which is well known to
seismologists. I'm no expert, but perhaps they could have set off chain
reactions below the earth's crust which triggered the two quakes in this
part of the country."
In that case, the young inventor reflected, it was only a freak of
nature that the Faber and nose-cone factories had been wrecked by the
shock.
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