In the excitement Aunt Josephine had seized the telephone and called our number. She did not even wait to break the good news, but handed the telephone to Elaine herself.
We left the laboratory on the run, too fast to notice that just around the building line at the corner stood a limousine with shades drawn. Even if we had paused to glance back, we could not have seen Wu Fang and Long Sin inside, gazing out through the corner of the curtains. They were in European dress now and had evidently come prepared for just what they knew was likely to happen.
In all the strange series of events, I doubt whether we had ever made better time from the laboratory over to the Dodge house than we did now. We were admitted by the faithful Jennings and almost ran into the library.
"Oh, Craig!" cried Elaine, as Kennedy, almost speechless, seized her by both hands.
For a few seconds none of us could speak. Then followed a veritable flood of eager conversation.
I watched Elaine carefully, in fact we all did, for she seemed, in spite of the excitement of her return, to be almost a complete nervous wreck from the terrible experiences she had undergone.
"Won't you come and stay with me a few days up in the country, dear?" urged Mary at last.
Elaine thought a moment, then turned to Aunt Josephine.
"Yes," considered her aunt, "I think it would do you good."
Still she hesitated; then shyly looked at Kennedy and laughed. "You, too, Craig, must be fagged out," she said frankly. "Come up there with us and take a rest."