She got some sort of a message, and she was terribly upset.

She went off to visit you." "Where to ?" "I don't know.

But wait--yes, she did say you had had a fall in the woods." "Did she go alone ?" And now Dick's heart began to thump strangely.

He was thinking of their many enemies.

Was this some new trick?
"No, Nellie and Grace Laning, her cousins, went with her." Dick turned to Ida Strong.
"You saw them go ?" "Yes, just as I told you.