She had got so used to Bunting that she couldn't do without him, and she had felt--oddest fact of all--acutely, miserably jealous.

But she hadn't let him know that--no fear! Of course, Joe mustn't neglect his job--that would never do.

But what a good thing it was, after all, that he wasn't like some of those detective chaps that are written about in stories--the sort of chaps that know everything, see everything, guess everything -- even where there isn't anything to see, or know, or guess! Why, to take only one little fact--Joe Chandler had never shown the slightest curiosity about their lodger.

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