"
"Meanwhile I was to be kept away at any cost," supplied Kennedy
sarcastically. "Where did he get it?"
"He didn't say."
"And you didn't care, as long as he had it," added Craig, then,
turning to the de Moches, "And what is your tale?"
Senora de Moche did not lose her self-possession for an instant.
"We received the same message. When you called, I thought it would
be best for Alfonso to go alone, so I telephoned and caught him at
the garage and when my train arrived here, he was waiting."
"None of you have seen Whitney here?" asked Kennedy, to which all
nodded in the negative. "Well, you seem to agree pretty well in
your stories, anyhow. Let me take a chance with the servants."
It is no easy matter to go into another's household and without
any official position quiz and expect to get the truth out of the
servants. But Kennedy's very wrath seemed to awe them. They
answered in spite of themselves.
It seemed clear that as far as they went both guests and servants
were telling the truth. Whitney had made the run up from the city
earlier in the afternoon, had stayed only a short time, then had
gone back, leaving word that he would be there again before his
guests arrived.
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