“Very well.”
“And photographs. You'll stand for one, of course.”
“Now really I don't see.”
“They can't get back of a photograph. It carries conviction. Of course we've got pictures of you at the office, Miss Frome. But I want to play fair with you. Besides, I want them to show the ship setting.”
She laughed. “Don't worry. Your enterprising photographer caught me twice before I knew it. And he got one of my cousin, Mrs. Van Tyle. She doesn't know it, though.”
“Good boy, Quillen. Now, if you'll begin at the beginning, Miss Frome, I'll listen to your story.”
When she had finished his eyes were gleaming. “It's the biggest scoop I ever got in on. Sounds too good to be true.”
Part 5
At Gillam's Point Jeff and his friends, with Dunn and Quillen, left the Bellingham on the launch which brought the pilot. They caught the fast express a half hour later and reached Verden shortly after midnight. His hat drawn down over his eyes and muffled to the ears in an ulster so that he might not be recognized, Farnum took a cab with Captain Chunn, Dunn and Quillen for the office of the World. He slipped into the building and his private room unnoticed by any member of the staff.
Dunn presently brought to him Jenkins, the make-up man.