Impulsively she started for the telephone, when the doorbell rang.
Immediately the sense of loneliness fell away.

Another chapter in the great game of hide and seek that had kept her from brooding until to-night?
The doorbell carried a new message these days.

Nine o'clock.
Who could be calling at that hour?
She had forgotten to advise Cutty of the fact that someone had gone through the apartment.

She could not positively assert the fact.

Those articles in her bureau she herself might have disturbed.