"You have failed, it seems, and Will Rogers had failed.

I've had one of the cleverest detectives of Chicago trying to find her for the last three days." "Oh, Kenneth!" exclaimed Beth.

"I didn't know that.

How good of you!" "It must have been the detective that came to see Mrs.Rogers," said Tom, musingly.

"She told me a strange man had been there from Mr.
Forbes, to inquire all about Lucy." "Yes; he makes a report to me every evening," remarked Kenneth; "and Mr.
Burke says this is the most mystifying case he has ever encountered.