“Somehow I suspicioned that,” he made answer, with banter in his dry tones.

“Of course I would be glad to know that he is not a villain,” she defended.

“Sure!”

“Well, one doesn’t like to think that a friend——”

“He’s your friend, is he?” chuckled Mac.

“Why shouldn’t he be?”

“I’m offering no objections, ma’am.”

“You act as if——”

“Sho! Don’t pay any attention to me. Sometimes I get these spells of laughing in to myself. They just come. Doctors never could find a reason.”

“Oh, well!”