"Are you sure you have looked carefully for the box?" and he now spoke more moderately.
"Oh, yes, Daddy."
"Looked everywhere?"
"Indeed I have."
"Then, daughter, by the face of the clock in front of me, I advise you to hurry away to school. I will see what can be done. You say Olga went away in a taxicab?"
"Yes, Daddy."
"Of course, you did not notice the number of the car?"
"Oh, no, sir. But the man was a Swede like Olga. And he came in and carried down her trunk." '
"I will see what can be done. Go to school like a good girl and do not let anxiety spoil your recitations. Good-bye."
He hung up the receiver and Janice followed his example. There seemed nothing else she could do.