“You have played the rôle for some time?”
“For—for a year, now.”
“You can’t expect me to believe that, Miss Granger,” said Matt calmly.
“Why not?” she flashed.
“Well,” he answered, “you would have cut off those long locks if you had made a business of playing such a part for a year. That would have been the reasonable thing to do, and I am sure you would have done it.”
“Do you doubt my word?” she asked defiantly.
“I don’t want to doubt your word, Miss Granger, but I have to take matters as I find them. You’re not a messenger for Random & Griggs, either, are you?”
She did not reply.
“And all this about my chum, Joe McGlory, going into the country and wanting me to join him, isn’t true, is it?”
“Yes, it’s true,” she declared desperately. “You’ll have to go with me if you want to find Mr. McGlory.”