“I wonder what Madge intends to do with him, now that she has got him?�

“Marry him,� said Chick laconically.

“Do you think she’ll have the gall to attempt that?� Patsy asked.

“Sure.�

“Why? It looks risky to me.�

“How so? She hasn’t done anything but abduct him, and if she becomes his wife—well, that would do away with that charge, wouldn’t it?â€�

“I suppose it would, Chick,� Patsy agreed.

“Besides,� Chick continued, “that has been her game from the start. She doesn’t seem to know any other one.�

“Uh huh!�

“She tried, long ago, to marry J. Cephas Lynne—and I’m inclined to think she would have done it, too, if his cousin Thomas hadn’t murdered him.â€�