"If you will be so kind I will get ready at once."
In five minutes they were on their way to the Gilsey House.
CHAPTER XXIII. EZRA LITTLE'S DISAPPOINTMENT.
Arrived at the Gilsey House, Scott went into the reading room, thinking he might find Mr. Wood there. But he failed to see him.
"Whom are you looking for?" asked Edward Stripling, the telephone boy, who occupied one corner of the room.
"Mr. Wood."
"Perhaps you are the one he wanted to see. He told me to tell any one inquiring that he would be back in fifteen minutes."
"Then we shan't have to wait long, Mr. Babcock."