XVII - MAIDA AND HER FATHER––––––––
GENEVIEVE hesitated. Although she had thought of doing this herself, yet she was not quite sure she wanted to.
But Allen insisted.
“Come with me or not, as you choose,” he said; “but I’m going to tell Stone. A secret like that must be divulged—in the interests of law and justice and——”
“Justice to whom?” asked Genevieve.
“Why, to all concerned.” Allen stopped to think. “To—to Keefe, for one,” he concluded, a little lamely.
“Yes, and to yourself for two!” Genevieve exclaimed. “You want the secret to come out so Maida won’t marry Curt to keep it quiet! Own up, now.”
Allen couldn’t deny this, but back of it was his instinctive desire for justice all round, and he doggedly stuck to his determination of laying the matter before Fleming Stone.
Geneviev
