“You did?”

Kitty nodded. “I was so unhappy about it all when Billy got sick. I felt that somehow I was to blame, so I just told Dad everything.”

“What did he think?”

“Plenty!”

“I mean what does he think we ought to do with all this information we’ve been picking up?”

“He didn’t say. You know a man in his position can’t say much, even to his daughter.”

“That’s true, of course.”

“The inspector’s coming down soon, he said. I have a feeling he plans to take it up with him.” Kitty decided she had better change the subject, for fear it might slip out that her father was dangerously involved.