I'll take my chances on the odds," she said with a laugh; "and
Wren Salvey will be `produced' when I am sure that the motor
girls' strange promise will be kept. We have those smart men just
where we want them now, and if they want Wren they must give us
that table."

"You think they know where the table is?" asked Hazel.

"I am not so sure of that," responded Clip, putting away the paper
and preparing to place upon the center table some of the contents
of her satchel. "But I do know that this man, Reed, is Mrs.
Salvey's second cousin. She told me he was always interfering
between Wren and the popular grandfather. Now, if the table
contained the will, as Wren declares, and if that same table was
sold at auction, by this man, Reed, or through his management, it
seems more than likely that he could trace it."

"But if he could find it, why would he not do so, and destroy the
document?" asked Paul.

"Bright boy!" declared the girl. "That only goes to show, Hazel,
that when a girl gets a thought she stops. When a boy gets one he
looks for another. I think now that perhaps the old table is safe
in some unthought-of place, and that perhaps - "

"That is why they wanted to get the promise book, to find if any
clue to its whereabouts might be within its pages," put in Hazel.
"Well, I know that Cora Kimball will find that table if it is in
any house around here. She vowed when she started out she would
either bring back the table or acknowledge herself beaten. The