Kathleen Carew was gone!
He stared with dazed eyes at the empty seat where he had left his beautiful young sweetheart less than an hour ago.
She was gone!
Then commenced a frantic search that lasted so long that by and by the train that was to have taken the pair to Washington thundered into the station and away again, while he still pursued his unavailing quest.
[CHAPTER XIX.]
"RALPH CHAINEY IS A MARRIED MAN!"
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot on sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never."
When Ralph Chainey had led Kathleen into the waiting-room of the depot he had been so absorbed in her that he failed to notice any one around him.