"Out West? Not to my knowledge, sir. I always supposed she saw him first in Sibley."
This well was certainly very dry.
"Yet you are not positive that this is so, are you?" pursued the patient detective. "She came from Nebraska, and so did he; now, why may they not have known each other there?"
"I did not know that he came from Nebraska."
"She has never talked about him then?"
"Never."
Mr. Gryce drew another deep breath and let down his bucket again.
"I thought your cousin spent her childhood in Toledo?"
"She did, sir."
"How came she to go to Nebraska then?"