“As Gardner’s?”
“Oh, no. As the impressions of an eye-witness. What’s more, they’ll pay for it and he’s to send me the check.”
“Then, in spite of a casual way of handling other people’s ideas, Mr. Gardner apparently means to be honest.”
“It’s more than square of him. I gave him the stuff to use as he wanted to. He could just as well have collected for it. Probably he touched it up, anyway.”
“The Goths and Vandals usually did ‘touch up’ whatever they acquired, I believe. Hasn’t he sent you a copy?”
“He’s going to send it. Or bring it.”
“Bring it? What should attract him to Manzanita again?”
“Something mysterious. He says that there’s a big sensational story following on the wreck that he’s got a clue to; a tip, he calls it.”
“That’s strange. Where did this tip come from? Did he say?”
Miss Van Arsdale frowned.