Dunlap's ring?"
CHAPTER NINE
For the first time during the difficult interview Dundee was sure that
Lydia Carr was lying. For a fraction of a second her single eye wavered,
the lid flickered, then came her harsh, flat denial:
"I didn't see nobody."
"I presume your basement room has a window looking out upon the back
garden?" Dundee persisted.
"Yes, it has, but I didn't waste no time looking out of it," Lydia
answered grimly. "I was laying down, with an ice cap against my jaw."
She _had_ seen someone, Dundee told himself. But the truth would be
harder to extract from that stern, scar-twisted mouth, than the
abscessed tooth had been.
Finally, when her lone eye did not again waver under his steady gaze, he
dismissed her, or rather, returned her to Captain Strawn's custody.
"Well, Janet, I hope you're satisfied!" Penny Crain said bitingly, as
she dashed unashamed tears from her brown eyes. "If ever a maid was
absolutely crazy about her mistress--"
"I'm _not_ satisfied!" Janet Raymond retorted furiously. "She's just the
sort that would harbor a grudge for _years_, and then, all hopped up
with dope--"
"Stop it, Janet!" Lois Dunlap commanded with a curtness that set oddly
upon her kind, pleasant face.
"Listen here, Dundee," Tracey Miles broke in, almost humbly.
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