He stopped, sure enough, and said, “Good morning.”
The boys returned his greeting, and he said,
“I was wanting to ask of you if you had chanced to see Marion De Lorme this morning.”
“No, we haven’t,” said Bill and Eddie honestly enough. “Did he come up this way?” asked Eddie cheekily.
“I don’t know,” said Zip, with a queer twitch of the jaw. “Mr. De Lorme wants him. If you see him, will you say for him to come home at once?”
“I saw him this morning,” said Ernest.
“Where?” demanded Zip, scarcely able to conceal his eagerness.
“Down by the L. & N. Station,” said Ernest calmly. “Looked as though he was traveling.”
Zip somehow looked relieved.
“Thank you,” he said, and, turning, hurried back, his coat-tails flapping.