“Which any one else might have done in his place.”
“What did you do?”
“Unfortunately, I was separated from you by the accident, and I could not find you.”
“What did you do when you knew my father was back there in that burning wreckage—when I appealed to somebody to save him?”
“I did not know where to find him.”
“Nor did Mr. Merriwell.”
“I think he did know, else he would not have succeeded so finely.”
“He did not!”
“He has told you that to make the act seem all the braver and grander in your eyes. He knows how to play his cards.”
Her lips curled.