“Weren't Fritz and Grace in on it?” Gwyn asked.
“Yes. They're friends of the Groves. I believe Grace is Penny's aunt, or something like that.”
“One other thing,” Gwyn said. “Penny knew things about my childhood that even I'd forgotten.” She explained about the Teckert boy.
“That's easily explained,” Ellen said. “When Mr. Barnaby knew you were having emotional problems, he paid his detectives to raid Dr. Recard's files. They found a copy of your diary there, which you'd given the doctor for study, and they copied it. Penny could have used a wealth of information that you'd written years ago, but which you'd forgotten yourself.”
“But why go to all this trouble?” Gwyn asked.
“Your fortune, as I understand it, would be enough to make a lot of people go to even more trouble. And your uncle was in very bad financial straights, both from high living and bad investments.”
“So it's over now,” Gwyn said, sighing.
“Yes, it is,” Ellen Plunkett said. “But there's a third reason I've come upstairs to see you.” She smiled mischievously. “There's a boy downstairs who wants to talk to you. He says he's treated you rather poorly and that he wants to apologize. But I think he's here for more than that, because he mentioned something about you and him going into Calder to take in a movie.”
“Jack Younger?” she asked.
“That's right.”
“I've got to shower and dress,” Gwyn said. “He probably won't want to wait. I'll need an hour or—” She kicked back the covers and got up so suddenly she startled Ellen Plunkett. “Tell him I'll shower and dress fast and be down in fifteen minutes. If there's one thing I could use now, it's a good movie. I sure hope it's a funny one.”