Why did they come to _me_ for such information?
Why ?" she stamped her foot for emphasis.
"I suppose," said Charlie Mershone, "they called up everyone who knows the girl.

It would be natural in case of her disappearance." "Come here!" cried Diana, seizing his arm and dragging him to a window.
"Be careful; try to look out without showing yourself.

Do you see that man on the corner ?" "Well ?" "He has been patrolling this house since day-break.

He's a detective!" Charlie whistled.
"What makes you think so, Di?
Why on earth should they suspect you ?" "Why?
Because my disreputable cousin planned the abduction, without consulting me, and--" "Oh, come, Di; that's a little too--" "Because the girl has been carried to the Von Taer house--_my_ house--in East Orange; because my own servant is at this moment her jailor, and--" "How should they know all this ?" interrupted Mershone, impatiently.

"And how do you happen to know it yourself, Diana ?" "Madame Cerise called me up at five o'clock, just after Louise's uncle had been here for the second time, with a crew of officers.