"It was to get some letters Mrs. Lathrop had written to him," returned Chase, without quizzing.
"Did you get them?"
"I did."
"Where are they?"
Chase balked.
"Did you read them?"
"Yes," he answered, reluctantly.
"What was in them? Shattuck had been pursuing Mrs. Lathrop, hadn't he?" fenced Kennedy, keenly.
"No—he had not. She had been pursuing him," snapped Chase, though why he was so evidently put out about it I could not make out at first.
"How about that Calabar bean?"