The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 165: what you’re looking at

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156 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. | “Well, what do you want now?” demands the adventurer, his voice husky either with emotion or the effect of numerous potations. “Where is your daughter—I want all to hear what I have to say.” _ This is the truth, but only a portion of it. I really am anxious to have the whole three of them under ~ my eye, so that it will be utterly impossible to execute a flank movement without my knowledge. “She is not here. There was a lady at supper whom she knew abroad, and Evangeline has run to her room to have a chat with her.” I am looking directly in Anderws’ face while he speaks thus, and have an idea he lies. The girl may not be in the rooms, but I doubt very much whether she has gone on the harmless errand he makes mention of. One fact I notice. When I was in here before, her hat lay upon a little side-table—I noticed it particularly, for it was a jaunty affair, with a vailattached. It no longer is in sight. Why should she wear a hat if only running to another room of the hotel. That is a point that causes me to believe Andrews lies. Then like lightning I conjecture where the girl can have gone. There is but one place that strikes me as plausible —she has gone to the hospital to push her inquiries. They have promised to keep the fact of Robert’s re- _ covery and departure a dead secret, but I am ready to wager dollars to dollars that even the doctor himself will not be able to hold out against her entreaties. Well, what of it? ““comicbooks.co mn