He thought the latter looked a little queer, and in an instant he learned why.
"Was the woman you wanted a staid, elderly person, apparently a foreigner ?" "Yes--of French birth, I am told." "Well, I guess you were all right in distrusting her.

She's gone--took a notion that night work didn't agree with her and left without so much as a 'By your leave!' She must have smelt you out in some uncanny way.

Too bad! She bade fair to be just the woman we wanted for a very nice part of the work." "Do you mean she's really out of the building--that you didn't stop her----" "I didn't know what she was up to, till she was gone.

I----" "But how did she get out?
She didn't go by the employees' door for I stood there on the watch.

I had seen her receive a note----" "A note?
How?
Who gave it to her ?" "Some girl." "And you saw this?
How could you?
Been through the work-rooms ?" "No.