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strange adventure.
    “Do you suppose,” George asked, “that Ned is connected with this glowing eye bit?”
    “Perhaps,” Nancy replied. “He’s in the engineering school. But I’m surprised that he didn’t mention it when I told him about the glowing eye.”
    “I’m not.” George smiled. “Maybe he thought he could find a solution on his own,” she teased.
    Nancy said, “Ned may have figured out the secret of the glowing eye and been kidnapped because of his discovery.”
    “That could connect the kidnappers with the Anderson Museum,” George commented.
    “Maybe in a roundabout way,” Nancy replied. To herself she was saying, “I wonder how much Marty King knows about this.”
    Bess, silent until now, said, “I didn’t like that Miss Wilkin and I wouldn’t trust her the length of this car. She’s spooky and I’ll bet she knows a lot more than she’s telling.”
    “I’m inclined to agree,” said Nancy. “Let’s stop at the library and see what we can find out about the Anderson Museum.”
    The girl at the reference desk there told them she had never been to the museum but understood it was a spooky place. “But look in the newspaper file. I think there’s an article in one of the papers.”
    Nancy’s search was not particularly rewarding. She learned that a large fund had been left to the museum as an endowment to take care of it for educational purposes. There was no mention of a glowing eye.
    “Perhaps Burt and Dave will know something about it,” George suggested.
    Nancy drove directly to the Omega Chi Epsilon fraternity house. Burt and Dave had just come in and greeted the girls warmly. Burt was a rather stocky, athletic blond boy; Dave was slender and blond. They played on the college football team with Ned.
    “Any news of Ned?” Nancy asked immediately.
    “Not a word,” Burt replied. “But Dave and I tracked down a bit of information that might link a certain man with Ned’s disappearance.”
    “Tell me about him,” Nancy begged.
    Burt said that in one of Ned’s engineering courses there was a graduate student with fiery red hair who worked next to Ned in the lab. “He disappeared at the same time Ned did.”
    “We also learned,” Dave added, “that this Zapp Crosson had his pilot’s license.”
    Nancy was intrigued by this information. “So he could have flown the mysterious copter and known how to program the craft to fly itself.”
    The boys nodded and Burt said, “Nancy, we thought you’d probably know what to do next.”
    “Any clues about where the copter went?” she asked.
    Dave said no one in the vicinity of Emerson knew anything about a helicopter which had the same registration number as the pilotless craft. The local police had made inquiries at a small airfield on the outskirts of Emerson, and also talked with members of a balloon club nearby. No one had a lead.
    “It’s still early enough to do some exploring before dinner,” Dave said. “While you girls are in Emerson you can stay here in our first-floor guest room.”
    Bess giggled. “I didn’t know you had one.”
    Dave grinned. “Oh, old Omega Chi Epsilon aims to keep up to date,” he said.
    The girls were led to a charming room with three beds in it and an adjoining bath.
    “I’ll take your car, Nancy, and fill it with gas,” Burt offered. “Meet you all in front in ten minutes.”
    While the girls were washing their hands and combing their hair, George asked Nancy, “What are your thoughts about Zapp Crosson?”
    Nancy replied, “I’ve been wondering if there was any connection between Zapp’s project and an experiment on which Ned might have been working. Ned may have been keeping his own a secret until he had completed the experiment.”
    Just then the boys returned. They knew where the nearby airfields were located, so the five young people climbed into the car. Bess and George told them the story of the glowing eye.
    Nancy felt lonesome without Ned, and started worrying even