"
"He would, too!" said Katy, starting to the Bear Cat with a load
of utensils. "Now come on; let's go home and be gettin' craned
up and ready for what's goin' to happen to us. Will they be
jailin' us, belike, Miss Linda?"
Linda looked at Peter questioningly.
"No," he said quietly. "It is very probable that the matter
never will be mentioned to you again, unless Judge Whiting gets
hold of some clue that he wishes to use as an argument against
matured Japs being admitted in the same high-school classes with
our clean, decent, young Americans. They stopped that in the
grades several years ago, I am told."
Before they could start back to Lilac Valley a car stopped in the
canyon and a couple of men introducing themselves as having come
from Judge Whiting interviewed Katy and Linda exhaustively. Then
Linda pointed out to them an easier but much longer route by
which they might reach the top of the canyon to examine the spot
from which the boulder had fallen. She showed them where she and
Katy had ascended, and told them where they would be likely to
find Oka Sayye.
When it came to a question of really starting, Linda looked with
appealing eyes at Peter.
"Peter," she said, "could we fix it any way so you could drive
Katy and me home? For the first time since I have begun driving
this spring I don't feel equal to keeping the road."
"Of course," said Peter. "I'll take your car to the nearest
farmhouse and leave it, then I'll take you and Katy in my car.
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