"Are the offices locked up?"
"Yes, and have been ever since five o'clock. No one but Mr. Smith has been in them since three o'clock."
"Then she must certainly have gone somewhere else."
"Do you calculate there is anything wrong?" said the janitor, with interest.
"I don't know what to think. She said she would return home from here, and she hadn't got back up to eleven o'clock."
"That looks bad."
"Of course something else may have come up that is keeping her away."
"That is so."
Thanking the janitor for his information, Robert left the Masonic Temple and walked up the street. He scarcely knew what to do next.
He would have called upon Mr. Farley for advice, but knew that the lawyer's offices were closed, and he had not the man's home address.