Nor was she at the apartment on the North Side, where, under the name of Jacobs, as Aileen had been informed by the detectives, she and Cowperwood kept occasional tryst.

Aileen hesitated for a moment, feeling it useless to wait, then she ordered the coachman to drive to her husband's office.

It was now nearly five o'clock.

Antoinette and Cowperwood had both gone, but she did not know it.

She changed her mind, however, before she reached the office--for it was Rita Sohlberg she wished to reach first--and ordered her coachman to drive back to the Sohlberg studio.