She came from the
garage upon Katherine O'Donovan rushing to meet her, holding a
man's coat at the length of her far-reaching arm.
"I wish you'd look at that pocket. I don't know how long this
coat has been hanging there, but there is a nest of field mice in
it," she said.
Katy promptly retreated to the improvised dining table, seated
herself upon an end of it, and raised both feet straight into the
air.
"Small help I'll be getting from you," said Linda laughingly.
She went to the edge of the declivity that cut back to the garage
and with a quick movement reversed the coat catching it by the
skirts and shaking it vigorously.
CHAPTER XXVII. The Straight and Narrow
This served exactly the purpose Linda had intended. It dislodged
the mouse nest and dropped it three feet below her level, but it
did something else upon which Linda had no time to count. It
emptied every pocket in the coat and sent the contents scattering
down the rough declivity.
"Oh my gracious!" gasped Linda. "Look what I have done! Katy,
come help me quickly; I have to gather up this stuff; but it's no
use; I'll have to take it to Peter and tell him. I couldn't put
these things back in the pockets where his hand will reach for
them, because I don't know which came from inside and which came
from out."
Linda sprang down and began hastily gathering up everything she
could see that had fallen from the coat pockets. She had almost
finished when her fingers chanced upon a very soiled, befigured
piece of paper whose impressed folds showed that it had been
carried for some time in an inner pocket.
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