_FOR_ weeks the search for Andy was kept up with unremitting vigilance, but no word of him came to the anxious searchers.

A few days after the meeting with Mrs.Bray, the police report mentioned the arrest of both Pinky Swett and Mrs.Bray, _alias_ Hoyt, _alias_ Jewett, charged with stealing a diamond ring of considerable value from a jewelry store.

They were sent to prison, in default of bail, to await trial.

Mr.Dinneford immediately went to the prison and had an interview with the two women, who could give him no information about Andy beyond what Mrs.Bray had already communicated in her hurried talk with Edith.

Pinky could get no trace of him after he had escaped.