"Then he is not naturally dumb——"
"Dumb?" repeated Helen, in wonderment. "You don't mean that he is dumb?"
"I mean just that. It appears that since his fall yesterday, he cannot talk at all," said the doctor.
CHAPTER XXI
RUTH INTERCEDES
The two girls did not see Roberto that day, nor for several days following. The hospital authorities did not think it best to allow him to be excited even in a mild way.
They sent in such delicacies as the nurse said he could have, and Tony Foyle was bribed by Helen to get a report from the hospital every day about the young Gypsy.
The girls kept very quiet about the patient in the hospital. Their mates knew only that Helen and Ruth had been driving with Mr. Cameron when the boy fell out of the tree. They did not dream that the victim of the accident had any possible connection with the pearl necklace that Nettie Parsons' aunt had lost!