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Producing the Evidence.
When Linda hurried home the next evening, her first word to Katy was to ask if Eileen were there.
"No, she isn't here," said Katy, "and she's not going to be." "Not going to be!" cried Linda, her face paling perceptibly.
"She went downtown this morning and she telephoned me about three sayin' she had an invoitation to go with a motor party to Pasadena this afternoon, an' she wasn't knowin' whether she could get home the night or not." "I don't like it," said Linda.

"I don't like it at all." She liked it still less when Eileen came home for a change of clothing the following day, and again went to spend the night with a friend, without leaving any word whatever.
"I don't understand this," said Linda, white lipped and tense.

"She does not want to see me.

She does not intend to talk business with me if she can possibly help it.