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110 "They don't even know that. She said she was going out to do some extra work."

"What kind of work?"

"She was a typewriter and a stenographer," Dido explained, "and in the evenings she used to get extra work. This night she went to work, but she did not come back, and Maggie worries over it."

"I should think she would," Richard replied kindly. "Why didn't Maggie go to her sister's employer? Probably he could throw some light on the subject."

"She did go to him, and he said Lucille had asked for two weeks' vacation, which he had given her, and Maggie didn't want to tell him that Lucille had gone out to do some extra work, for fear he wouldn't like it. He paid her by the week, and didn't know she did outside work. Maggie thought then she would be back, but now it is five weeks and she hasn't come back yet."