“Then he took the ring,” Walker concluded, when the story had all been told.
“He hasn’t said so,” Nan was being very careful that the facts were all understood as they were, not as other people might imagine them to be.
“No, not in so many words,” Walker agreed, “but then, he did. You and I know that, and it’s not necessary to tell anyone at all anything about this yet. It’s a bigger story than you realize,” he ended, “and it has many, many more angles than this particular one. Let me work on it awhile without any interference.”
Nan agreed to this, and so the two conspirators parted.
CHAPTER XXVI
SERENADERS
“What’s going on downstairs?” Laura came into Nan’s room quietly. “Of course, it’s none of my business,” she went on, “but everything seems to be in an uproar. Your cousin is ranting around as I’ve never seen him rant before, and Walker Jamieson is there and he looks as though everything is wrong with the world.”
“Why, I don’t know,” Nan looked up from the diary she was writing, a diary in which she kept a day by day account of her trip. But she looked worried. Had Walker, after all, told the story that they had promised to keep a secret and was her cousin insisting on getting to the bottom of everything right away?
“What were they talking about?” she asked Laura.