"Tell me, please! Don't hide anything from me. Has anything happened to Kenneth?"
"No—no; of course not." Quickly changing the subject he asked: "You got a message."
"Yes—a cablegram. It came just now."
"Have you got it? Let me see it."
"Yes, certainly," said Helen, looking around for the dispatch. Unable to find it, she called to her sister.
"Ray, dear, what did you do with Kenneth's cablegram?"
Her sister came up to assist in the search, in which even Mr. Steell joined. But the search was fruitless. The cablegram had disappeared.
"Oh, I know!" suddenly exclaimed Ray. "It must have been carried away with the tea things."
"That's right! I never thought of that!" said Helen.
The next instant the two women hurried out of the room in the direction of the kitchen.