" He screwed hard at a nut as he spoke.
"But what I have to do concerns the whole community here. It is also
of the greatest importance to you, Miss King."
"To me?"
"And my action has, I may add, the warmest approval of the judge.
There! Thank goodness, that wretched thing is stuck on again.
Good-bye for the present, Miss King."
"But-- Oh, do wait for a moment! You really must explain--"
Meldon mounted and rode away while she spoke. Just before he
disappeared from view, he turned his head and shouted back,--
"You'll know all about it this afternoon, Miss King."
He rode rapidly down to the village, and dismounted at the door of
Simpkins' office. It was shut. Meldon knocked loudly several times,
but received no answer. He mounted his bicycle again and rode off at
high speed to Simpkins' house. Here the door was opened to him by the
red-haired servant.
"I want to see Mr. Simpkins at once," said Meldon.
"It'll fail you to do that," said the girl, "for he isn't within."
"Tell me this, now," said Meldon. "Aren't you a cousin of Sabina
Gallagher's?"
"I am, of course."
"Very well. I'm a friend of Sabina's.
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