Not having found you, and not being able to return and try again to-morrow, I write these lines to save delay, and to tell you how we stand thus far.
"I am sorry to say, no advance has been made since my former report.
The trace of the young lady which we found nearly a week since, still remains the last trace discovered of her.

This case seems a mighty simple one looked at from a distance.

Looked at close, it alters very considerably for the worse, and becomes, to speak the plain truth--a Poser.
"This is how we now stand: "We have traced the young lady to the theatrical agent's in Bow Street.
We know that at an early hour on the morning of the twenty-third the agent was called downstairs, while he was dressing, to speak to a young lady in a cab at the door.

We know that, on her production of Mr.
Huxtable's card, he wrote on it Mr.Huxtable's address in the country, and heard her order the cabman to drive to the Great Northern terminus.
We believe she left by the nine o'clock train.

We followed her by the twelve o'clock train.