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R. STONE was met at the door by his wife, who looked at him with an eager, inquiring gaze.

"You have had no success," she said.

"I have not yet found Nattie," he returned; "but have received one or two suggestions from a little friend of hers, Hattie Hartwell. She says that Nattie has a spot on the roof of the house, which she haunts."

"That is quite absurd, I think," said Susan; "and, of course, you don't expect to find her there after such a night as the last. If so, I would not give much for her life. She must have caught her death, in that pouring rain."