“You saw her come back?”
“No; I didn’t think much about it at the time—she’s a crazy piece anyway—and—”
“What do you mean by a crazy piece?”
“Why, she’s queer—not like other folks. She won’t have anything to do with any of us over there—”
“That doesn’t make her out crazy.”
Miss Bascom shrugged impatiently. “I don’t mean insane or demented. I only mean sly and secretive. She never speaks to anybody at the table—and though she makes eyes at Gordon Lockwood, she snubs Mr. Tyler, who is just as good a young man. They both admire her—anybody can see that, but she treats them like the dust under her feet.”
“Not an adventuress, then?”
“I don’t know. But I do know she’s a thief—or how did she get that money and the ruby?”
“Perhaps Doctor Waring gave them to her?”
“Then she is a wrong one! Why should he give a strange girl such things?”