CHAPTER 8They got back to the ranch about four. McNab turned the horses into the corral and the three men entered the kitchen. Brinklow made a light. Eeliper, who now had a perfectly impassive air, pointed out the cupboard, which was a neatly-made affair hanging to the wall. It was locked. He illustrated how he had knelt outside the window peeping over the sill, where Sophie had moved and stood when she poured out the coffee and went to the cupboard for the supposed sugar.
They made but little noise, however, there were three uneasy sleepers in that house, and they presently entered the kitchen together, Sophie in kimono and slippers; Ken and Michel partly dressed. They looked at Eeliper in frozen astonishment, and each of them exclaimed in his own way:
“Where did you find him?”
“Oh, I
