"'Did you hear that, Geraldine?'
"And with that they both burst into roars of laughter.
"Jerry's ignorance of things made him keenly sensitive to ridicule.
"'I think you're very impolite,' he said with dignity.
"'Aw, go chase yourself,' said Geraldine and vanished into the shadows with her companion.
"That interview took a lot of explaining. In fact, all the way to Jerry's house the mystery of the girls' behavior hung like a cloud over him. 'Do you know, Jack,' he said as we were parting, 'I think that girl was mad—quite mad.'"
"Couldn't you have prevented that meeting?" I asked.
"I didn't try. Besides, Jerry is a persistent chap. When I asked him why he stopped, he said it was because the girl looked like somebody he was hunting for."
"Who? I can't imagine."
"He said her name was Una Smith."