"I know how that happened," spoke up Sally, doing her part to relieve Shirley of the embarrassment that seized her at mention of her accident. "This so-called actress is really not right mentally. I know it, but, as Bobbie says, she has lots of money, so of course- -"
"Dol Vin snapped her up," said Judith.
"Yes, and you know the Rumson place? That old stone mansion right in the heart of the country folks settlement?" (They all knew the Rumson.) "Well, I believe she has been going out there every afternoon to rehearse. She would drive out in a hired car and dismiss the man. Then she raved around and did so much loud talking to herself, and even screaming, that the whole neighborhood was up in arms. I heard the other day the folks around Rumson had called on the police to stop the nuisance."
"No wonder they would," agreed Jane. "The children must have been frightened out of their senses."
"They were," went on Sally. "So I suppose old Sandy just set his trap for her—"
"And snapped it tonight," concluded Jane. "Well, I must say she was a character. And to think we all missed the open air performance!"
"And to think you and I let her escape from Lenox, Jane, the night of the alarm."
"What a shame we didn't know she was making her exit by way of the dummy?"
"But in that awful dark place," put in Janet with an appropriate shudder.
"Oh, she was just armed to the eyes with flash lights," Shirley told them. "I never saw such an outfit as that tragedy queen sported."