"Does Mary Downs know anything about it?" asked Cora directly, determined to face Sid down.
"I'm sure I don't know," he drawled. "But you know she was—er—there with the—rest of us."
CHAPTER XIV
JUST CORA AND PAUL
As if this had been the entire object of his peculiar actions, Sid suddenly stopped the car.
"This is as far as I care to go," he said. "I think I'll leave you now. I can't thank you enough for the ride," he added mockingly, and, with a bow that had much of irony in it, he walked down a side path of the park, into which he had directed the machine.
Cora did not answer him, but her look was sufficient to show what she thought. And in spite of her contempt she felt an overwhelming desire to question him about what he had said of Mary Downs.
Did Sid Wilcox know anything about the robbery?
That was a question Cora asked herself as she took her place at the wheel, just vacated by the unmannerly youth.
"He certainly acts as though he did," she reasoned to herself. "And why should he make such an insinuation against Mary?"