Ruth shook her head.
“I’d rather not,” she remarked. “I couldn’t bear to do that. I’d much rather accuse him openly. But we won’t even do that now. We’ll just watch and wait, and we won’t even tell Mr. Howbridge until we are more sure of our ground.”
“All right,” agreed Neale and Agnes after they had talked it over at some length.
It was agreed that they should all three keep their eyes on Hank, and note whether there were any further suspicious happenings.
“Of course you want to be careful of one thing,” remarked Neale, as the three talked it over.
“What is that?” questioned Agnes quickly.
“You don’t want that mule driver to suspect that you are watching him. If he did suspect it he’d be more careful to hide his doings than ever.”
“We won’t let him suspect us, Neale,” declared Ruth.
“Of course he may be as innocent as they make ’em, and on the other hand he may be as deep as——”
“The deep blue sea,” finished Agnes.