I very much fear, however, that she will obtain no news here." He departed, and Phyllis watched him talking to some of the waiters and the leader of the orchestra.
Presently he returned.
"I am very sorry," he announced, "but the brother of Mademoiselle could not have come here.

I have inquired of the garcons, and of Monsieur Jules there, who forgets no one.

They answer all the same." "Thank you very much," she answered.

"It must have been somewhere else!" She was unreasonably disappointed.

It had been a very slender chance, but at least it was something tangible.