“Is the disposition to want more, in Southerners, confined to the male sex?” he laughed.
“In some things—yes, unquestionably yes!” she retorted. Then changed the subject. “Has Mr. Croyden told you of his experience, last evening?” 237
“With the stranger, yes?”
“Do you think he is in danger?”
“What possible danger could there be—the treasure isn’t at Clarendon.”
“But they think it is—and desperate men sometimes take desperate means, when they feel sure that money is hidden on the premises.”
“In a town the size of Hampton, every stranger is known.”
“How will that advantage, in the prevention of the crime?” she asked.
“By making it difficult.”
“They don’t need stay in the town—they can come in an automobile.”