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 Whately. There’s a line in it that reads like an invitation to meet him in the mountains.

“Her father has been a great fellow for fishing—trout fishing. We found that he owns a neck of the woods up here, with a trout stream—and a bungalow on the mountain overlooking a place called Careyville. Two of our boys have just reported, from Careyville, that Mary Langton ’s in that bungalow, with an old woman, a servant who ’s been in the family for years.

“The girl drew all her money out of her private account before she left. My theory is that she ’s going to persuade Whately to get away where we can’t find him, and she intends to use the money to help him do it. We haven’t much time to lose. She probably knows that we ’ve been watching her. She won’t want to have any delay. But he knows that we have n’t been able to get on his trail. He ’ll feel more confident than she does. And unless she intends to go with him,