JAMES PIKE,
Branchville, N. Y.:
Get Will Barnes on train, headed for my office, soon as possible.
GARRISON.
As he stepped in the elevator to return to his floor, he found Tuttle in the corner of the car.
CHAPTER XXXI
THE FRET OF WAITING
Tuttle had performed his services fairly well. He reported that young Robinson had returned to town and had lost no time in dismissing him, with a promise to pay for services rendered by the end of the week. Theodore had seemed content with the bald report which Tuttle had made concerning Garrison's almost total absence from his office, and had rather appeared to be satisfied to let the case develop for the present.
Tuttle knew nothing of the note on Garrison's desk from Theodore, and was therefore unaware how his news affected his chief, who wondered yet again what might be impending.
Concerning Fairfax there was news that was equally disquieting. He had been here once, apparently quite sane again. He had talked with Tuttle freely of a big surprise he had in store for the man who had hidden his wife, and then he had gone to his lodgings, near at hand, departing almost immediately with a suit-case in his hand and proceeding to the station, where he had taken a train on a ticket purchased for Branchville.
Tuttle, uninstructed as to following in a circumstance like this, had there dropped the trail.