"
"Toot-toot! Farewell!" cried Jack, as he puffed in imitation of an
auto and turned up the street.
"Do you know," began Cora as soon as her brother was safely out of
sight, "speaking of that robbery, I have been thinking lately how
strange it was that Ida, Mary and Sid should have been talking so
seriously behind my car when I happened to look around and see them.
Mary's face flushed, and Ida immediately walked away."
"Is that so?" demanded Bess.
"Yes, and I have been puzzling over it for some time."
"I overheard some of the things they said," declared Belle. "I
think Sid was trying to get Mary and Ida to promise to go out for a
ride with him that evening. Ida refused, and Mary--well, I didn't
hear just what she said--but it wasn't no, I'm sure."
"But they all three looked so--so guilty," went on Cora. "It was
exactly as if they didn't want to be discovered."
"Maybe Sid was ashamed to be seen asking Mary to go for a ride. You
know, he's reported to be well off, and Mary--well, she's a dear,
sweet little girl, but she works for a living, and you know what a
fellow like Sid thinks of working girls."
"I thought I heard Sid saying something about hiring a machine to
take them out in," went on Belle.
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