"Don't call her a Mavis girl. Miss Durham to you, Tod."
"Very well then--Miss Bird to you."
Haskins sighed resignedly. "We'll never get on at this rate. I am really and truly in trouble, Macandrew. Do listen."
Tod nodded, and his face grew serious. Haskins seized the fortunate moment and detailed everything from the finding of the sealed message--which was scarcely necessary, since Tod had hooked the cylinder--to the parting with Mavis on that enchanted night. "What do you think of it, Toddy?" questioned Haskins anxiously.
"It's very rum," murmured Tod, making pencil marks on his blotting-paper. "Why does Rebb keep this girl shut up?"
"That is what I wish to learn. You must help me."
"I'm only too glad: but how?"
"Don't you remember how Mrs. Geary said that if Mavis left the Pixy's House the Major would not be able to dash about in his motor car?"
"Yes. What of that?"
"It hints at money belonging to Mavis, which the Major is using."