Pete placed a finger against his lips and glanced from side to side. "Suppose," he said, "I were to tell you a great secret?"
"Go at once!"
"Suppose we exchange secrets?" he whispered.
That startled her. What did he mean? Did he know anything—or suspect?
"Suppose——" He stopped, turned his head slightly and listened. "Something is happening," he said. "Let's run."
And before Nell Norcross knew it she was running, her hand in his, for all the world like Alice in the Looking Glass Country dashing breathlessly along, with the Red Queen shouting: "Faster! Faster!"