2/35 "One hint, and Ferris would take flight," mused Jack. "And if there were accomplices, they are surely watching her every movement." And yet it was an ordeal, this parting. For the hundredth time, Witherspoon promised to come by the first train to Detroit with the tidings of the secret quest, and a score of times he was forced to deny Alice Worthington's tearful pleading. "Let me know to whom I can make restitution," she cried. "This will--who has it? |