"Is the fact that you are engaged to Boyden generally known, Miss
Page?" Nick next asked.
"It is not, sir. We have said nothing about it."
"Ah, that opens the way for conjectures," cried Nick. "Is there any
person who knows of the engagement, or who suspects it, that would
jealously aim to injure Boyden by implicating him in a crime?"
"Oh, I cannot think so, sir!" said Violet, with a look of horror. "I
certainly know of no such person."
"Have you been accepting the attentions of any other young man?"
"No, sir," smiled Violet. "That is not my style."
"I am glad to hear you say so, yet I really might have known it,"
laughed Nick.
"Thank you, Detective Carter," bowed the girl, blushing warmly. Then she
hastened to add: "Still, I am not a prude, sir--don't think I mean that.
In my profession one is obliged to be on friendly terms with a great
many persons, both men and women. At the theater, for instance, I meet
many men and form many acquaintances, both agreeable and the reverse."
"And sometimes have the attentions of men fairly forced upon you, I
imagine?" said Nick, inquiringly, with a brighter gleam lighting his
earnest eyes.
"Yes, sir; sometimes," Violet demurely admitted.
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