CARL WALRAVEN, No -- -- Fifth Avenue, New York." Very slowly the Reverend Mr.Rashleigh read this paragraph to its end.
He laid down the paper and looked thoughtfully at the cat.
"Extraordinary!" murmured the Reverend Raymond, half aloud--"most extraordinary! Like a scene in a novel; like nothing in real life.

Has the earth opened and swallowed her up?
Has she gone off with some younger and handsomer lover?
Or has she been decoyed from home by the machinations of some enemy?
She had many, poor child! That unfortunate Sir Roger is like a man insane.

He is offering half his fortune for her recovery.

It is really very, very extraordinary.

Quite a romance in real life.