Larry flushed darkly, and his eyes fairly stuck out with indignation. A common crook to be taking this high and mighty air with the police! Trying to belittle him in the performance of his duty! Her old tricks! “That will do you no good!” he said.
His anger bucked her up. She turned to him with a mocking smile. “You must be cleverer than you look,” she said coolly. “How did you manage to follow me to this place?”
To have her eyes fixed full upon him confused Larry very much. There was a destroying power in them. He tried to harden himself against it. “Never mind that now,” he said.
“And this disguise,” she went on, looking down at herself. “I spent some hours thinking it up. It cost me a pretty penny too. It ought to have deceived sharper eyes than yours.”
“You couldn’t get by me with
