"Who was it? Do you believe him?" Doug spoke a little breathlessly.
"I don't know. I'm going to check up on it now."
"Charleton, who did he say it was? Please, Charleton!"
The older man turned to look suspiciously at Doug. "How long have you known it?"
"You've no call to speak that way to me," cried Douglas.
"Humph! Well, he says it was that young devil of a Jude."
"Look here, Charleton, don't say anything to my father about it. He'll go crazy."
"I don't know what I'll do. I'll talk to Jude, first." And Charleton would say no more.
He found Judith in the milking shed, and while he talked to her there Douglas engaged his father's attention in the living-room. Here Judith swept upon them.
"Doug Spencer, as long as I live, I'll not speak to you again! You promise breaker, you—"