Again Havener declared:
“He’ll be here.”
“But here comes the train!”
The train was coming. There was activity and bustle at the station. The platform was alive with moving human beings. Agnes Kirk and Cassie Lee came out of the ladies’ waiting room. The male members of the company got together quickly.
“He has not come!” exclaimed Agnes Kirk, her keen eyes failing to discover Frank. “I feared it! I knew it!”
Hodge half turned away, grumbling something deep in his throat.
The actors looked at each other in doubt and dismay.
With a rush and a roar the train came in, and drew up at the station. Passengers began to get off.
A heavily veiled woman in black came out of the ladies’ room, and started for the train. As she passed the group of actors some of their conversation seemed to attract her notice. She paused an instant and looked them over, and then she turned toward the steps of a car.
“Excuse me, madam,” said Hodge, quickly. “You have dropped your handkerchief.”