"I'll run into Vinton's for dinner.

All this comes of playing sleuth." She laughed softly at her own remark, then her face grew grave.

"What shall I do ?" she thought.

"It is my duty to tell the authorities, but I promised Father after the class money was found that I'd never meddle in any such affair again.

Yet here I am, on the outskirts of Overton, trailing an escaped convict as though my bread and butter depended upon it.