Look at this! Am I right ?" demanded Grace triumphantly.

"Hippy was whacked over the head with the butt of a revolver, and the blow cut right through the felt.

No wonder he made no outcry.

He is a lucky fellow if he hasn't a fractured skull.

Elfreda, this is serious." "Both serious and marvelous--serious so far as Hippy is concerned, and marvelous so far as your visualizing the incident is concerned," declared Miss Briggs.
"Do you think we should tell Nora ?" "We must tell her something, and we cannot tell her an untruth," replied Elfreda after brief reflection.