“I heard you and the other boys talking about Nick Jasniff and Link Merwell.”
“Yes?”
“Do you really imagine they had something to do with it?”
“Yes, I think so, and so do Phil, Ben, and Roger. But the detectives and Mr. Wadsworth think the work was done by professionals. They don’t think that fellows like Nick and Link would be equal to the job.”
“But if you think Merwell and Jasniff guilty, why don’t you go after them and find out?”
“We don’t know where they are.”
“Aren’t they with their folks?”
“No.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. The Jasniffs are traveling aboard and Mr. Merwell is in Philadelphia. We sent to Mr. Merwell—through an outsider—and learned that he didn’t know where Link was just now, said he had written that he was going on a tour south for the winter. My private opinion is that Mr. Merwell finds Link hard to manage and is glad to get rid of him.”