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Rh wound up? At a dingy little second-rate apartment-house west of the park; a walk-up, with letter-boxes and bells in the vestibule!"

"Did Smith find out what she was doing there? Whom she was calling on?"

"The party she was looking for was gone. Smith saw her read over the names on both sides of the vestibule two or three times; and when she came out she looked discouraged. The janitor was sweeping the sidewalk, and she stopped to speak to him for a minute; so after she had got in her taxi Smith went up to him, slipped him a buck and asked him whom the young lady had been looking for. He said it was one of the tenants who had gone away sick eight or nine months before, a Mrs. Gael."

"Gael," Odell repeated. "That's the name of the woman whose husband divorced her and brought in Drew as co-respondent."

So little Miss Chalmers was not so unsophisticated as she had seemed. Her desire to see Drew must have been desperate indeed to have led her to cast aside all ordinary conventions and seek him at the home of the woman whom he had discarded.

"Exactly," the chief responded dryly. "She didn't know where else to look for him apparently, for she went straight home from there; and Smith says that she had a scene with her aunt which reduced the poor woman to tears, and then locked herself in her room. So much for his report. Taylor searched Gene's room night before last when he beat it to keep his date with Drew, but he didn't find anything except clothes and stuff for out-door sports; skates and tennis-rackets and polo and golf and hockey sticks. He