“Well, Father always did say that if you could not be trusted with your own affairs you could not be trusted with other folks’. I have a habit of taking it for granted that my business is of no interest to others. I did not intend to be snippy.”
“Exactly!” The man laughed silently. He could but mark that Josie still kept to herself what money her father may or may not have left to his only heir.
“If you think best, I’ll go immediately to Peewee Valley and see the Trasks. Miss Ellett tells me they are her best friends and I feel perhaps they may know something of the movements of Cheatham. Before I go, however, I’ll make a call on the nurses’ registrar and look into the supposed whereabouts of this nurse Fitchet.”
“I don’t see what you are leaving to me to do then,” said the captain, smiling.
“Well, I guess you have other cases on your docket just now, while this is my sole interest. Good-bye, sir, and thank you for your courtesy!” Josie was up and gone before the surprised man could say anything more.
“Her father all over!” he grinned. “‘Waste not, want not!’ meant words as well as food to Detective O’Gorman.”
CHAPTER X
A VISIT TO PEEWEE VALLEY
“Thank the Lord for gossipy women!” Josie exclaimed as she left the office of the nurses’ registrar, where she had readily engaged the young woman at the desk in a spirited discussion concerning the various nurses whose names were there registered.
It was a simple matter to find out that Miss Fitchet was considered an excellent nurse; also that she was thoroughly unpopular with her sister nurses. She was in demand, however, because of her steady nerves.