The Haunted House Days passed without word or sign from the missing girl.

The marshal haunted the post-office and the railroad station, hoping with all his poor old heart that word would come from her; but the letter was not there, nor was there a telegram at the station when he strolled over to that place.

The county officials at Boggs City came down and began a cursory investigation, but Anderson's emphatic though doleful opinions set them quite straight, and they gave up the quest.

There was nothing to do but to sit back and wait.
In those three days Anderson Crow turned greyer and older, although he maintained a splendid show of resignation.

He had made a perfunctory offer of reward for Rosalie, dead or alive, but he knew all the time that it would be fruitless.