She folded the note and gave it to the secretary. Then she went down the stairs with a heavy heart.
Twenty minutes later, when the passengers boarded her plane, she looked in vain for Mr. Tytell among them. But when the last of them had come aboard, and the ground crew had secured the door and wheeled away the loading ramp, he was still absent.
Since finding the violin case in Lost-and-Found, Vicki had had an awful feeling that he would not board the plane.
CHAPTER XIII
Havana
WHEN VICKI ARRIVED BACK IN TAMPA THE NEXT day, she went directly to John Quayle’s office to see if he had any news of Amos Tytell. The office was closed. She found a taxi and drove to the Curtins’.
Nina and Louise were in a flurry of packing for their Havana trip, trying to decide which dresses they would need for the various things they planned to do.
They both burst out in a torrent of excited babble when Vicki entered the room.
“Look, Vic. Which evening dress do you think looks better? The green or the white?”