CHAPTER XVIII.
PHILIP'S BROWNIE At breakfast next morning Azalea's place was vacant.
"I didn't disturb her," said Patty, "for I want her to sleep late, if she can.

She is such an active young person, she gets tired,--though she rarely admits it." And then Janet came in.

"Mrs.Farnsworth," she said, "Miss Thorpe is not in her room.

Perhaps she has gone for one of her early morning walks.
But on her dressing-table I found these two notes." The maid handed Patty one of the letters and gave the other to Van Reypen.

Both were addressed in Azalea's handwriting and the two who took them felt a sudden foreboding as to the contents.
Nor were their fears ill-founded.