this case. Absolutely no reason why she should try to drown the little fellow, especially when her sister is running after Carter McKnight, and he wanted to take the kiddie home. And yet—"
"Well?" questioned Bert.
"I suppose it might be that he was afraid that his mother had some intention of adopting the child, and that it might cut him out of a bit of property. Of course that would account for Kat's interest, naturally. What do you think?"
And Bert held the little boy closer still in her arms and looked down into the round blue eyes which now and then opened sleepily and then softly closed again in quiet slumber, but she said nothing, only smiled and laid her cheek against his little tow head.
It was dusk when the car swung around the curve before the two small bungalows on Tantalus; but Evalani had heard the honk of Dick's horn before they came into sight, and was out in the road, holding out both hands in a sort of supplication. And when Dick shouted, "I've got him! He's all right!" she was upon the running board, and she had the baby in her arms before Bert had time to quite release him. And then, without a word she turned back through the hedge with her face bowed over him; and Dick wheeled his car and he and Bert drove back down to town to retrieve Bert's roadster; but they did not speak for a long time, and when they did, they talked of other matters.
