“I guess it will be safe here,” said Josie, putting the slim volume of mysterious manuscript between two ponderous tomes.
“Sure,” laughed Bob, “unless I come snooping in at night. It wouldn’t be so hard to make an entrance in this old building.”
“Don’t say such things,” begged Mary Louise. “I am scared to death to have Josie stay here by herself as it is.”
“Nonsense!” declared Josie.
“Not nonsense at all!” insisted Mary Louise. “Anyhow, I am glad you can’t stay to-night.”
“Well, as far as our work is concerned she can,” declared Danny. “The water and gas are connected and the walls of her house are built.”
“She just can’t, though!” said Mary Louise, putting her arm around her friend. Josie put on her dull-eyed look and said nothing, only hugged her darling Mary Louise with warm affection.
CHAPTER X
CHIEF CHARLEY LONSDALE
“Why don’t you like Mrs. Markle?” Josie asked Irene as they sat in Mary Louise’s car while she went in a shop on a housekeeping errand on their way home from the Higgledy-Piggledy after the strenuous day of unpacking and carpentering and plumbing.