And in another minute the room was spinning round me; but the wording of the telegram was clear enough: "Come home first train Maisie Dunlop been unaccountably missing since last evening and no trace of her.

Murray." I flung the bit of paper on the table before the other three, and, feeling like my head was on fire, was out of the room and the hotel, and in the street and racing into the station, before one of them could find a word to put on his tongue..