At all events if the Harrington child and its desperate companions had actually alighted there, all trace of them was lost at that point.
The next morning after the newspaper accounts were published a group of scouts hiked down to Catskill to look over the ground, hoping to root out some information or discover some fresh clew.

They wound up in Warner's Drug Store and had a round of ice cream sodas and that was all the good their sleuthing did them.
On the way back they propounded various ingenious theories of the escape and whereabouts of Master Harrington's captors.

Pee-wee Harris suggested that they probably waited somewhere till dark and proceeded to parts unknown in an airplane.

A more plausible inspiration was that they had crossed the Hudson in a boat in order to baffle the authorities and proceeded either southward to New York or northward on a New York Central train.
The likeliest theory was that of Westy Martin of Roy's troop, that an automobile with confederates had waited for the party at Catskill.

That would insure privacy for the balance of the journey.
The theory of one scout that the party had gone aboard a cabin cruiser was tenable, and this means of hiding and confounding the searchers, seemed likely to succeed.