“Well,” I urged, as she hesitated, “what did Jenny say?”
“Don’t you know anything about it?”
“About what?” I asked, trying to be casual.
“Why, about Mr. Gately.”
“And what about him?”
“He’s gone! Disappeared!”
“Amos Gately? The president of the Puritan Trust Company! Minny, what do you mean?”
“Why, Mr. Brice, only a little while ago, I took Jenny down. She was crying like everything and she said that Mr. Gately had been shot!”
“Shot?”
“Yes, that’s what she said——”