CHAPTER XV
FALSE ASSURANCE
At noon Judy gave Dale and Pauline what little information she had over sandwiches and coffee in a near-by restaurant. Joy Holiday, she told them, disappeared twenty years ago; and Emily Grimshaw’s only reason for acting strangely was because she believed Irene to be her ghost.
“If that’s the case,” Dale declared, “we’re simply wasting time questioning her. Irene’s father might know something real.”
Judy agreed. They telegraphed him at once:
IRENE MISSING SINCE YESTERDAY STOP IS SHE
WITH YOU
JUDY
The answer came back early that same afternoon: