"Dearest! Come to mama now."
"Not yet, mama!" pleaded the child.
"Yes—now!"
She had been gone but a few minutes when Mrs. Pennybacker followed her to her room. She found the door locked and the young woman in the act of packing a suit case.
"What are you doing, Margaret?"
"I am going away from this place to-night," the girl exclaimed excitedly, "somewhere—I don't know where."
"You think this man is here after you?"
"I feel sure of it."
"Would he know you?"
"I can't tell. You know the case was tried in Washington, and the court-house is just across the street from the Detective Bureau. He may have been in the court-room. And, as Mr. Harcourt says, without doubt they acquire the habit of noticing faces.... No, I won't take any chances. There is too much at stake. I am going to get aboard the first boat that comes and go anywhere it takes me. I think I shall take the ferry for Mackinaw City; but I may go back to St. Ignace if that boat is in first."