Charles Goodrick hurried into the room. "I must say good-night," he said, in a voice which trembled with excitement. "A very big piece of news has come in. One of our men has all the details. It will be our particular scoop. No other paper to-morrow morning will have all that we shall."
"But what is it?" Rose asked.
"A big railway accident, but with an extraordinary complication, and—by Jove, what a coincidence!—it concerns the young Duke of Paddington!"
"Is he killed?"
"No. He was stunned for a time. The accident happened in the fog just outside Paddington Station. He was stunned, but soon recovered.
"Then what?" said the journalist.
"Why, the extraordinary thing is that he has totally disappeared!"