“You’ll have a sweet telephone toll to pay.”
“I’m going to make Jack do it. He’s asking the clerk here how to get to Fairport the quickest way. The clerk’s another girl.”
“Oh, I’m not going to talk another word. Good-bye,” and a click in his ear told Ed that Cora had hung up the receiver. He laughed and joined Jack, who had gone away from the booth.
CHAPTER X
REUNITED
“Who was she?”
It was Cora who demanded this when, an hour or so later, Jack and Ed had been reunited to their party in the Mansion House at Fairport.
“Who was she?” and Cora looked appealingly at her brother, who smiled in a tantalizing fashion.
“We told you everything,” remarked Ed. “Over the wire, you know.”
“It’s very easy to tell things–over the wire,” remarked Belle, with a laugh. “One doesn’t have to–blush, you know.”