“And found out what?” I asked.

“That you’d been asking questions about the trunk.”

“And so?”

“And so we wrote the railroad company. I have a letter here this morning stating that a claim was made, not by Evaline Dell, but Evaline D. Harris.”

“Did you get her address?”

“Yes. The railroad company gives country newspapers a break now and then.”

“Are you going to see her?”

“Are you?”

“That depends.”

“What did she say, Donald?”