For some time she stood motionless at the window, looking out, but seeing nothing, her mind busy with the problem.

She thought rapidly and clearly, more than ordinarily eager to solve this mystery.

She was a newspaperwoman, and the strange story in which she was involved appealed to her imagination, yet its appeal was far more effective in a purely personal way.

It was Frederick Cavendish who had formerly been the partner of Jim Westcott.

This was why no answer had come to the telegrams and letters the latter had sent East.