“He says that he won’t settle.”
“Won’t settle!”
Patsy heard Deland’s teeth meet with a sudden fierce snap.
“That’s what he said, Guy, and he as good as fired me out of the crib,” replied Cora inelegantly. “You’ll have to see him yourself if you——”
“See him—you bet I’ll see him,” Deland broke forth in tones that would have chilled an ordinary hearer. “I’ll see him, all right, and I’ll lose no time about it.”
“What need of rushing things?”
“Need enough.”
“Why? Won’t it keep?”
“No, hang it, nothing keeps when that infernal sleuth takes up a case,” Deland snarled viciously. “You don’t yet know what has happened.”
“Sleuth—what sleuth?” Cora’s arm vanished like a flash from Patsy’s cautious gaze, when she swung round in her chair. “You don’t mean——”