She entered the office with me and was standing close at my side all the time I was writing our names in the register; but later, when I turned to ask her to enter the elevator with me, she was gone, and the boy who was standing by with our two bags said that she had slipped into the reception-room across the hall.

But I didn't find her there or in any of the adjoining rooms.

Nor has anybody since succeeded in finding her.

She has left the building--left me, and--" "You want her back again ?" This from the detective, but very dryly.
"Yes.

For she was not following her own inclinations in thus abandoning me so soon after the words which made us one were spoken.