“I should say they wouldn’t! Gee!” and Lav permitted himself a last long laugh.
“And you may change your tune yet,” cried Sidney, really vexed, “When Mart and I discover something.”
“We’ll both keep our eyes open!” Mart agreed, admiring Sidney’s imagination even though she could not always follow it. “But we ought to keep quiet ’bout our suspicions, hadn’t we?”
Sidney hesitated. She did want to tell Mr. Dugald about the “good catch.” But Mart went on convincingly.
“If we told anyone we were on, y’see it might get to Jed Starrow himself.”
“That’d be the biggest joke in town,” Lav warned, with a chuckle.
Sidney ignored him. “Of course we must not breathe a word of our suspicions to a soul,” she averred. “And if either of us finds out anything she must tell the other at once. I think we will find something, too, for two heads are better than one.”
“Say, are you going to leave me out of your fun—just ’cause I laughed?”
Sidney did not want to leave Lavender out but she did want to punish him a little. She pretended to consider his question.
“If you find it all so highly amusing you might be tempted to tell someone—”