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"What are you hiding?" Miss Kilray sombrero and put it on the table "I didn't knoas you--thought it ht be Lady Jim," she explained

"Why wasn't I to tell Jack Kilmeny that he had taken Ned's hat by mistake?" India wanted to know

"Because it wasn't by mistake"

"Not by mistake! What would he ith another man's hat?"

"I'm not sure about that Perhaps he didn't want his own You see, I had started myself to tell him about the mistake, but his eyes asked me plain as words not to speak"

"But hy?" India frowned at the hat, her active brain busy "It would be absurd for hih"

"Don't they search prisoners before they lock them up?" Moya asked abruptly

India shook her head "I don't know Do they?"

"Of course they do" Moya's eyes began to shine "Now suppose there is so about that hat he didn't want them to see"

"How do you mean?" India picked up the hat and turned it round slowly "It's worn and a bit disreputable, but he wouldn't care for that"

Moya found a pair of scissors in her work basket With these she ripped off the outer ribbon This told her nothing Next she examined the inside Under the sweat pad was a folded slip of paper She waved it in excitement

"What did I tell you?"