"Why, Constantine is down here, isn't he?"
"He hasn't been here since yesterday."
Cherry rose nervously. "There is something wrong, Boyd. They have been acting queerly for a long time."
"Then you are alone at your place," he said, thoughtfully. "I think you had better come down here."
"Oh no!"
"I shall send some one up to spend the night at your house. You shouldn't be left unprotected." But just then Constantine came sauntering round the corner of the building.
"Thank Heaven!" cried Cherry. "He will know where the others are."
But when his mistress questioned him, Constantine merely replied: "I don' know. I no see Chakawana."
"They have been gone since morning, and I can't find them anywhere."
"Umph! I guess they all right."