Where was Fingers?
Kent shook his head, feigning an anxious questioning, but inside him his heart was leaping.

He knew! He told Father Layonne he was afraid all Fingers' knowledge of the law could do him but little good, that Fingers had told him as much, and the little missioner went away considerably depressed.

He would talk with Fingers again, he said, and offer certain suggestions he had in mind.

Kent chuckled when he was gone.

How shocked le Pere would be if he, too, could know! The next morning Father Layonne came again, and his information was even more thrilling to Kent.