“He probably stopped wearing those shoes with the burned stain. If he discarded them right away they’d probably still bear the evidence of shell dust.”
“And even if you found out he’d really been there, Brad, where would it take us?”
“I don’t know, but you can just be sure, Kit, I’m not going to let a thing like this slide by.”
CHAPTER SIX
A REVELATION
Kitty was still thinking of her conversation with Brad when she went in to help Jane with breakfast the next morning. What could they do about it, even if they had positive proof that the Punaro boy had visited the oyster cannery on the night of the fire? He could claim he had gone there to see friends, and they would have accomplished nothing by their prying. She hoped Brad wouldn’t get in any trouble about it.
“How did you like your Canteen work?” her father asked at breakfast.
“Oh, fine!” she exclaimed, her thoughts returning to the real work of the previous evening. “It’s really loads of fun. I’m going to be on duty every other night.”
“You’ll be doing more than your quota of hours, won’t you?”
“Oh, I don’t mind that. This is no time to stick to quotas, you know.”