“You have only to name it.”
“I find you willing,” smiled Nick, a bit puzzled.
“The pleasure is all mine,” laughed Vic. “Yet I’m really curious to know what you want of me.”
“I’ll tell you. On what road was it, Miss Clayton, that you and Mrs. Badger were held up by these rascally highwaymen?”
“The road to Canton.”
“Are you familiar with it?”
“I’m familiar with that part of it,” cried Vic, with a very significant smile and grimace. “Dear me! I shall never forget it!”
“Quite vividly impressed upon your memory, eh?”
“Decidedly so, Detective Carter?”
“I suppose you could locate the precise spot, if there was any occasion?”