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442 Comstock thought she had gone to O'More's at Grand Rapids, so when Phil got sick she telegraphed there. They had been gone all summer, so her mother is as anxious as Phil." "The O'Mores are here," said Edith. "I haven't seen any of them, because I haven't gone out much in the few days since we came, but this is their summer home." "Edith, they say at the hospital that it will take careful nursing to save Phil. He is surrounded by stacks of maps and railroad guides. He is trying to frame up a plan to set the entire detective agency of the country to work. He says he will stay there just two days longer. The doctors say he will kill himself when he goes. He is a sick man, Edith. His hands are burning and shaky and his breath was hot against my face." "Why are you telling me?" It was a cry of acute anguish. "He thinks you know where she is." "I do not! I haven't an idea! I never dreamed she would go away when she had him in her hand! I should not have done it!" "He said it was something you said to her that made her go." "That may be, but it don't prove that I know where she went." Henderson looked across the water and suffered keenly. At last he turned to Edith and laid a firm, strong hand over hers. "Edith," he said, "do you realize how serious this is?"