“You perhaps know that you are the only person in the household on whom suspicion might rest.”
“I don’t see why I should be suspected,” she exclaimed hotly, “when Mary Price is already known to be a thief——”
“Perhaps you have a grudge against Miss Price?”
“I have not,” she cried, stamping her foot.
“Did no one ever suspect you of taking the things at the High School? You know that often happens—one girl is blamed for another’s——”
Fannie flew into a passion.
“I tell you Billie Campbell and Mary Price are thieves. They have a whole box of valuable things they have stolen, stored away in Mrs. Price’s safe.”
“What sort of things?”
“Jewelry,” burst out Fannie, then stopped and bit her lip. “But I may be mistaken about that,” she added, trying to speak calmly.
Mrs. St. Clair hurried into the room with the necklace in her hand.