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 I told it to her; and still we had an instant there alone.

"What do you know about happenings after the scatter from the Feather?" I said to her. "Did Vine get Christina?"

"No; she got away."

"He's in Chicago?"

"No; New York."

"What else do you know about him?"

She shook her head and opened the door toward her car. "Don't stay about now," she asked me; and she went into her compartment.

I should have known that she wouldn't talk over others' affairs. She'd said a good deal, all things considered. So Christina had escaped Keeban and he was back in New York, whence he had come. Probably, therefore, Jerry was in New York, too.

I asked myself what Doris's move to the east might have to do with them; how might she be mixed in?

Likely she was not mixed with them at all except when, more or less by chance, her group encountered one of their group in business. I could not possibly connect her with any scheme for murder. Christina, herself, had refused such a scheme; how much more surely