"Give it to me at once," she commanded.

"I have hunted high and low for it.

Your finding it is very strange, I must say.

I am sure it was never off my desk." Elfreda half closed her eyes and regarded the newspaper girl with the air of one viewing a rare curiosity for the first time.

"Then your desk must be on the hall floor just outside the door," was her dry retort.
"At least that is where I found this paper." A certain significant ring in the girl's voice admitted of no contradiction.