You
understand?"
"I do," said Linda promptly. "Would you prefer that we do not go
on any more Saturday trips at present?"
The length of time that the Judge waited to answer proved that he
had taken time to think.
"I can't see," he said finally, "that you would not be safer on
such a trip where you are moving about, where no one knows who
you arc, than you would where you are commonly found."
"All right then," said Linda. "Ask the party we are considering
and he will tell you where he will be tomorrow. Thank you very
much for letting me know. If anything should occur, you will
understand that it was something quite out of my range of
fore-sight."
"I understand," said the Judge.
With all care and many loving admonitions Katy assisted in the
start made early Saturday morning. The previous Saturday Linda
had felt that all nature along the road she planned to drive
would be at its best, but they had not gone far until she
modified her decision. They were slipping through mists of early
morning, over level, carefully made roads like pavilion floors.
If any one objection could have been made, it would have been
that the mists of night were weighting too heavily to earth the
perfume from the blooming orchards and millions of flowers in
gardens and along the roadside. At that hour there were few cars
abroad. Linda was dressed in her outing suit of dark green. She
had removed her hat and slipped it on the seat beside her.
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