“Fine talk, but what’s the first step?”
“Do you want to know what I think?”
“I sure do.”
“Then, I say, let’s take the whole story to Fleming Stone—and at once.”
CHAPTER XVII
MAIDA AND HER FATHER
Genevieve hesitated. Although she had thought of doing this herself, yet she was not quite sure she wanted to.
But Allen insisted.
“Come with me or not, as you choose,” he said; “but I’m going to tell Stone. A secret like that must be divulged—in the interests of law and justice and——”
“Justice to whom?” asked Genevieve.
“Why, to all concerned.” Allen stopped to think. “To—to Keefe, for one,” he concluded, a little lamely.