"Why, nobody," said Jerry. "I tried to tell you by talkie, but it
wouldn't work. I'm afraid Sattell did something to it before I left.
It's dead."
"What's that thing?" demanded Borden. "That--that wagon?"
"It's a ground car, sir," Jerry said uncomfortably. "There are thirty
or forty of them in a sort of valley about ten miles away. This
one was half-buried in mud, and the others are the same or worse.
The--er--creatures--took me there and dug this out for me. They
apparently wanted us to have it."
"And it runs!" said Borden. There was again no sense to anything. A
ground car buried in mud should not run when excavated.
"Yes, sir," said Jerry. "They dug it out for me, and I got in it and
found the skeletons and the weapons."