“When’s it comin’?”
“Inside of ten days.... And, Jenney, I don’t believe the paper’s going to bother much longer.”
“Eh?”
“I’m going to—er—give that girl a hint of our plans.”
“What?”
“I’m going to give her a tip, as they say. She’ll investigate, and that professor will investigate.”
“Like Sheriff Churchill did?”
“The result,” said Fownes, “will be similar.”
CHAPTER XVI
“YOU are not,” said Evan Pell to Carmel Lee, “familiar with laboratory practice—er—with chemical analysis, for instance.”