"Yes—yes, this is David Carroll—I'm glad you think it was sweet of me to telephone—I want to speak to your sister—She isn't there?—Well, ask her to telephone me at headquarters as soon as she comes in, will you?—Uh-huh!—the Warren case has ended—and that's what I wanted to tell her—I only did my best—Yes—Oh! say—"
The receiver clicked on the hook. Carroll was grinning as he turned back to his friend—
"Guess what that young thing said when I told her I had solved the
Warren case?"
"Tell me, David—I'm a poor guesser."
"She said," returned Carroll gravely—"that I am just the cutest man she has ever known!"