“I suppose you think you’re very smart,” he said, irritatedly, “to have hidden the thing so securely.”
“It must be so, if that exhaustive search of yours failed to find it,” she replied, but not triumphantly at all. “However, you must remember that I assured you I hadn’t the papers. You cannot, therefore, expect me to be surprised that you didn’t unearth them.”
“I salute you, Miss Fairfield, as an exceedingly clever young woman in more ways than one. I cannot tarry longer,——”
“Afraid you’ll be caught here?” Patty couldn’t resist this fling.
“No; I must report to Captain Farnsworth. He will send some one else, doubtless, who may succeed where I have failed.”
“Let us hope so,” said Patty, drily.
CHAPTER XVI
THE FLAG AND THE GIRL BACK HOME
Copyright, MCMXVIII, by Jos. W. Stern & Co., N.Y.
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