"Should say so; ever since he was a baby. Guess he has a pretty good idea where that girl is."
"He told me he didn't."
"Ah, he'd tell you that. But just wait till I get hold of him. You didn't go about it the right way. He's in a class all by himself, Eben is."
"And will you see him?" Donaster was all eagerness now.
"But what about that money? I'm hard up. You can't do much without money these days. It makes people talk when nothing else will. How much can you spare?"
Donaster thought for a few minutes, and his brows wrinkled.
"I've only five hundred in the bank," he at length explained. "You'll have to wait until to-morrow for any of that."
"Five hundred! My, that seems a fortune to me. Where did ye get it?
Steal it?"
Donaster shot a quick startled look at his companion as if he would read his mind. Then he gave a nervous laugh.
"Never mind where I got it," he warded. "Don't ask too many questions."