“Your boarder is Miss Perrot?” he said inquiringly.
“Yes, sir.”
“Is she at home?”
“Oh, no, she never is here at this hour,” said the landlady. “She is employed as a stenographer by a New York banker, Mr. Arthur Gordon. But she now is away on a visit. She will be gone about a week.”
“Gee! that’s sure to be the longest week on record,” thought Patsy.
“When did she go, Mrs. Lord?” Nick inquired.
“She left from her office yesterday, sir, but she sent her trunk away two days ago.”
“Why did she send her trunk in advance?”
“I don’t know, sir. I did not inquire.”
“Did you know Miss Perrot before she came to board here?”