“Have Miss Campbell’s motor car at the hotel to-morrow morning at five o’clock,” she ordered.
Miss Campbell rose. The girls looked at her timidly. They had never seen her angry before.
“I won’t try to talk with you to-night,” she said in a voice that was almost a whisper. “I shall not attempt to speak again until we leave this hateful city far behind us.”
She had hardly left the room when there was a light tap on the other door.
Billie opened it and a chambermaid gave her a note, and quickly departed down the corridor.
This is what the note said:
“I accept your invitation, and will meet you to-morrow at the railroad station in Ogden. Send a line by the chambermaid, who will wait around the corner of the hall, letting me know what time you intend to start. With a heart full of gratitude from one who is most unhappy,
“E. S.”
CHAPTER XX.—THE ELOPEMENT.
The morning mists still clung to the mountains and the citizens of the Mormon city appeared to be wrapped in a profound slumber when the Comet flashed joyously along the quiet streets.