“I can’t seem to think,” replied Edina hesitatingly. “If I only could be sure——”
Ray Carew turned a serious face to Billie.
“Are you sure of that, Billie?”
Someone in the group snickered and a voice not hard to identify as Amanda Peabody’s said meaningly:
“If Billie Bradley was in the room alone with that money, what was to prevent her making off with it herself?”
CHAPTER XXI
EVIDENCE PILES UP
For a moment there was such dead silence in the room that one could easily have heard a pin drop.
Then Billie said in a clear, hard voice:
“Are you suggesting that I stole the Gift Club money, Amanda Peabody?”