“Why, look at Jack!” called Eleanor.
“He looks as if something had happened,” said Nancy.
They hurried up to his side, and Ray was about to ask him why he seemed so disturbed, when Jack turned and caught sight of them.
“Well! you’re a nice lot of friends for a fellow to have,” complained he, impatiently.
“It’s your own fault, we invited you to come shopping with us,” declared Eleanor.
“Shopping, yes! but you never said a word about a good time with Ray,” grumbled Jack. “I bet you planned the whole thing yesterday.”
“People who deceive others are always suspicious of everything but themselves,” quoth Nancy.
“Leaving all of that in the past, let’s make the most of the present,” advised Ray. “By the way, Jack, what’s your list of restaurants for?”
The officer, seeing that the young stranger had found the friends he had been seeking, now walked away. Jack held up the paper which he had been checking and showed the girls the name and address of every eating-place in Panama, but not the old coffee-house where they had been lunching.
“See that list?” demanded Jack. “Well, I raced around to every blame one of them the moment I heard you girls had met Ray.”