She paused, evidently agitated. What new mystery was this? Al asked himself.
"I have read the interview with you in this morning's Rockton Banner," went on the young lady.
"I'm sorry to hear that," said the boy, bluntly.
"Why?"
"Because there are scarcely ten words of truth in it."
A genuine look of disappointment appeared upon Miss March's face.
"I am very sorry to hear you say that," she said.
Al stared at her in surprise.
"You surely did not believe all that stuff, Miss March?"
"Not all of it, of course," replied the girl, with a faint smile; "but there was one part that I thought might be true."