“So? That’s odd. A Fardale uniform. But I recall that it was reported that some one, thought to have been a burglar, had stolen clothing out of the barracks.”
“Kadir Dhin fears Gunga Singh as much as I do; he is watching for him, and will have him apprehended if he can. He and Colonel Gunn have been laying some plans about it. I wish you would apologize to Kadir Dhin. He is sensitive, and is very much hurt.”
Having pieced into the story of the affair the scraps with which he had not been familiar, Chip soon took his leave.
His meeting with Rose Maitland had not made him as happy as he had anticipated.
CHAPTER X.
Reckless Villum.
“WHILE you were away,” Clan was saying to Chip, later, “I was tempted to put over a dictograph scheme that would have been great. I met a fellow down at the station who was agent for the things. If I could have put one in the Duke’s room, with concealed wires running from it to this, we could have got at the bottom of the rascal’s planning. But I’d have had to bribe more than one person, and then the problem of getting the wires across bothered me. So I passed it up.”
Chip laughed.
“So it was the bother of the wires, and not any feeling that the thing wouldn’t be quite a square play; but I thought the great mechanical head you developed while running that garage down in Phoenix was equal to anything.”
Kess was twisting in his chair, and his blue eyes were glistening.