"He left a note for you," said the girl, handing him the letter which
Haines had given her.
Langdon opened it and read:
"I am giving up the job. You can understand why. The least said about it between us the better. I am sorry. That's all. BUD HAINES."
Slowly he read the letter a second time.
"And he was making the best kind of a secretary, I thought."
Divining that something against Haines had been told her father,
Carolina glanced at Norton.
"I told your father how we caught Mr. Haines," he spoke as an answer to her.
The girl was startled. She had not thought that things would go this far.
"I told him how Haines wanted to get in some land speculation scheme with Altacoola, how we tricked him and caught him with the goods when he made the proposition to me and how we forced him to confess."
"You told father that?" gasped Carolina.