Paul quickly raised his finger to his lips.
"Let's go outside," he said. "Some one may hear us here…"
CHAPTER XXXV
At eight o'clock Mary had gone to Helen's.
"If I'm not back at ten, I sha'n't be home tonight," she had told
Hutchins as she left the house.
At half past eight Archey called, full of the topic which had been started that afternoon. Hutchins told him what Mary had said.
"All right," he said. "I'll wait." He left his car under the porte cochère, and went upstairs to chat with Miss Cordelia and Miss Patty.
At twenty to ten, Hutchins was looking through the hall window up the drive when he saw a figure running toward the house. The door-bell rang—a loud, insistent peal.
Hutchins opened the door and saw a man standing there, shabby and spattered with mud.
"Is Miss Spencer in?"