For a moment she sat there and then, leaning her head upon her arms on the table, wept tears of absolute loneliness and despair.
The telegram to Michael Kelly of San Francisco brought an answer, but a most unsatisfactory one.

Jedediah Cahoon had not been in the Kelly employ for more than six weeks.

Kelly did not know where he had gone and, apparently, did not care.

Captain Obed then wired and wrote the San Francisco police officials, urging them to trace the lost one.

This they promised to do, but nothing came of it.