"You think entirely too much. Now you get hack to Chelton, and stay there. I may need you."
Lem's little, rat-like eyes gleamed.
"You'll pay me, won't you?" he asked.
"Of course."
"Well, I'm a little short now, an'—"
Sid extended a bill, which the man took quickly.
"Now be off," ordered young Wilcox, "and don't ever follow me again."
He waited until Lem had shuffled off, and then he took a different path.
"He's getting altogether too familiar," said Sid to himself as he strolled along. "But I may find him useful."
Scarcely had Cora, driving her big car, turned into the turnpike leading from the park to New City, than she again encountered Ed Foster and Walter Pennington. She instantly realized that they would wonder why she did not stop, for Ed was slowing up his car. But she knew she could not get back to the bank building to meet Paul if she halted, so, with a smile, as comprehensive as she was able to make it, she sent the Whirlwind ahead at a fast speed. She noted the looks of surprise on the faces of her friends as she passed them.