Ted Hosmer looked at Dolly as she spoke, and a sudden light came into his eyes.
"By Jiminy!" he said, and he drew a sharp little whistle. "I say,
Dolly, where is your Mrs. Berry?"
"Oh, no, Ted," Dolly laughed, "you can't connect Mrs. Berry with this matter any more than you can the Mortimers' servants. Mrs. Berry didn't do it."
"I didn't say she did," returned Ted, smiling at her. "But where is she, that's all."
"I don't know. Probably in her room."
"Take me there, will you? I must see her at once. Why, I've got an idea!"
"Goodness, Ted!" exclaimed Geordie. "What a strange piece of news!"
"Don't be funny!" said Ted; "I say, Dolly, take me to speak to Mrs.
Berry, won't you?"
"Why, of course, if you like,—come on."
Dolly led the way and Ted followed. The others paid little attention, for Geordie was thinking out a new theory of how somebody could get across from the next house, by means of scuttles to the roofs on the front part of the houses. Of course, in front the houses were attached, but the back extensions were only one room wide, thus giving ground space for tiny back yards.