Kennedy pulled himself together.
"Tell me, quick—how did it happen?" he demanded of Aunt Josephine.
"It was the ring," she cried, handing it to him.
Kennedy took the ring and looked at it for a moment. Then he turned to us blankly.
All the rooms were empty.
Elaine had been spirited away.
CHAPTER III
THE WATCHING EYE
Not a clue was left by the kidnappers when they so mysteriously spirited Elaine away from the apartment of Wu Fang. She had disappeared as completely as if she had vanished into the thin air.
Kennedy was frantic. Wu and Long Sin themselves seemed to have vanished, too. Where they held her, what had happened to her was a sealed book. And yet, no move of ours was made, no matter how secret, that it did not seem to be known to them. It was as though a weird, uncanny eye glared at us, watching everything.