“You are not,” Mr. Parker grinned, pushing her away. “Try to remember, this is an office.”
Penny resigned herself to a chair. Questioned by her father, she gave a straightforward account of how the car had been stripped at the Yacht Club grounds.
“The tire gang is getting bolder every day!” Mr. Parker exclaimed wrathfully. “But we’ll soon put a stop to their little game!”
“How, Dad?”
Mr. Parker hesitated and then said: “I can trust you, can’t I, Penny?”
“Of course.”
“Then I’ll tell you this in confidence. For weeks Jerry Livingston, our star reporter, has been working on the case. He’s rounded up a lot of evidence against the outfit.”
“Then we have a chance to get those tires back!”
“I’m not thinking about that,” Mr. Parker said impatiently. “Jerry’s gathered enough evidence to smash the entire gang. It will be as big a story as the Star ever published.”
“When are you breaking it, Dad?”