“Why should Delvin Riddle try to pump you and get our route from you?”
“Why, I suppose he wanted to know what towns we were going to play in so he could——”
“But Collins knew the route.”
Frank started.
“That’s so!” he exclaimed. “Never thought of that.”
“King gobbled up Collins, and so, of course, Collins told him the route.”
“It seems so.”
“Of course it was so.”
“Then why——”
“That’s it, exactly—why did Riddle take so much trouble to try to pump it out of you? I’ve been puzzling over that. There’s some kind of a mystery here.”