But something was still the matter on the line; she could not get what
Wayne was trying to tell her.
As her excitement became more difficult to control the man at her side kept speaking to her—touching her—soothingly.
At last she could hear Wayne. "You hear me, Katie?"
"Oh yes—yes—what is it?"
"I want to tell you—"
It was swallowed up in a buzzing on the line.
Then central's voice came clear and crisp. "Your party is trying to tell you that Ann is found."
"Oh—" gasped Katie, and lost all color—"Oh—"
"Katie—?" That was Wayne again.
"Oh yes, Wayne?"