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Rh "No, of course not," Herrick answered impatiently. "The kid's nutty."

The reply satisfied the others; but Harry's thoughts jumped back to that moment when Herrick had urged him to insist on having Mr. Eldredge's attention. The incident suddenly assumed a peculiar significance; and Harry had but to look again at Herrick's face to feel certain that Stoddard's charge was true, and that he himself had been deliberately used in a plot to cripple Rupert.