She rose from her seat, and, as she did so, Miss Rainforth said:
“What I did last night that brought suspicion on me was to try and find where Mr. Ellison was taken.”
“Taken?” repeated Ida.
“Yes, taken,” continued Miss Rainforth. “I am satisfied that Mr. Ellison was lured from the house to be seized and carried off.”
However startling this idea was, Ida found, on pursuing it, that the young lady, Miss Rainforth, had nothing better than her suspicion to base it on.
Therefore, Ida went away, but not until Miss Rainforth had promised that, if anything additional came to her knowledge, she would send word of it to Nick Carter.
But Ida thought that, as a person of concern in the case, Miss Rainforth had now ceased to be important.
CHAPTER XXIII.
ON LANNIGAN’S TRAIL.
While Ida had been having her forceful interview with Miss Rainforth, Chick and Patsy had journeyed to Philadelphia.
On their way thither, on the train, they had become aware that the woman, Mrs. Ladew, was also a fellow passenger.