“But what?”
“That’s what I’d like to know. Say! You don’t suppose it could have been those two envelopes he put in his suitcase?”
“It might have been.”
“Why didn’t we look in the suitcase when we were there? If Cora and Henry are stealing, we ought to know it!”
“We wouldn’t have discovered much if we had looked,” Kitty declared. “I noticed those envelopes were sealed.”
“Yes, that’s so. We really haven’t any excuse for opening sealed envelopes. If we did, it would be just our luck that whatever it was belonged to Henry after all.”
“He was up to some mischief today, Dory. You remember how guilty he looked when we met him on the stairs. And he’s the laziest man alive. It isn’t likely he’d start out to clean house unless he had been told to do it.”
“No, he was hunting for something, all right. I wonder if it could have been—”
She did not finish, for Kitty caught her by the hand and dragged her from the bed.
“The ruby ring!” she exclaimed. “Maybe that was what they were after!”