“I just love the country,” sighed Heloise. “To hear the old blue jays singing and watch the clouds coming up over the hill and feel the breeze in your face—why, there’s nothing quite like it, Mr. Dempsi.”
“I’ve never seen you two talking before,” said Diana with a smile. Which was true.
In a few seconds she was gone....
“Now see here, Sally, we haven’t time to act foolishly over this business. The stuff was taken, maybe by that guy Selsbury. What did you come here for, anyway?” It was a question that he had been seeking an opportunity to ask.
“I came here when I found you were trying to work the job as a one-man performance. I know you, Dan; you’ve got a mighty bad reputation amongst honest crooks.”
He laughed without merriment.
“I’m trying to live it down. Where has he gone—did he tell you he was leaving?”
“No; we’d given up confidences before he left. You said he would come back. I’ve got it in my bones that you’re right. I guess he got it.”
“But he couldn’t have worked a job like this single-handed,” said the other. “Why, your husband couldn’t have opened that safe more scientifically....”
She was not willing to be turned by gross flattery.