“We may come up against a dead wall,” Dorothy admitted. “But there is just a chance that we may pick up a clue there that will be useful. Anyway, Dad thinks the chance is worth taking, and I do too.”
So it was decided that the two girls were to start for Chicago the following day, “traveling light.”
After they had gone to their rooms that night and Tavia was brushing her hair before the mirror, Dorothy stole in to her and whispered:
“Tavia, if I tell you a secret will you promise never to tell a soul?”
CHAPTER XII
A GUESS
“Cross my heart and hope to die,” said Tavia. “Tell me quickly ere I pass away with suspense.”
“Well, I have a very good suspicion which way Joe headed.
“He headed West——”
“Exactly! And straight for the ranch of one young Westerner called Garry Knapp.”
Tavia looked at her chum hard for a moment, then waved the hair brush aloft in a jubilant gesture.