"Miss Thayer! I heard her name mentioned in court this morning. Is she a friend of yours?"
"Yes, indeed!" exclaimed Cora, now alarmed. "What could be said of
Cecilia Thayer?"
"Why, she has been on very intimate terms with the Salvey child, and lawyers devise all sorts of schemes, you know, to meet their own ends. It was hinted that Miss Thayer might know where the missing promise book was."
"Clip take that from Wren! Impossible!" cried Cora. "Oh, this is all a mistake! I must go back. I cannot go on and let Clip be blamed for stealing the promise book."
CHAPTER XV
ROB ROLAND
"Cora Kimball!"
Ed Foster stood up every inch of his height. He was always tall, but now, facing the girl whose name he had so vehemently spoken, he seemed a veritable giant. Cora wanted to be firm; she meant exactly what she said when she declared she would abandon the tour of the motor girls, and go back to Chelton to help Cecilia Thayer out of her difficulty.
But, after all, Cora was only a girl, and Ed was a great, strong man—he ought to know.
"If you cannot trust me, Cora, and allow me to help Clip, I really think you are not doing justice to Jack's friend."