Just now we must pull together and find out where she found the diamonds, and who put them there.

To write to Uncle Arthur would do no good, though seeing him might; the last we heard he was thinking of taking the coast voyage from San Francisco to Tacoma.' 'Tom,' Harold exclaimed, with great energy, as he sprang to his feet, 'that decides me;' and then he told of the offer Billy had made him on the car.

'When I saw how sick Jerrie was, I made up my mind not to accept it, although I need the money badly.

But now, if Jerrie gets no worse, I shall start for Tacoma in a few days and shall find your uncle Arthur, if he is to be found.' It was growing dark when the two young men finally emerged from the house and stood for a moment outside, while Harold inquired for Maude.
'She is not very well, that's a fact,' Tom said, gloomily; 'and no wonder, when mother keeps her cooped up in one room, without enough fresh air, and lets nobody see her except the family and the doctor, for fear they will excite her.

She knows nothing about the diamonds, nor that Jerrie is sick.