"My dear Miss Fairfield, you have got to do something pretty quick! Get busy! What would your favourite heroes of wild romance do to get out of such a fix as this ?" When Patty was baffled, she always talked to herself.

But her appeals to herself or her ingenuity did no good, and after a thorough search for a means of exit, she concluded to call out.

She felt it was an undignified thing to do, and, too, she felt it would do no good, but there was no other course to pursue, that she could see.
So she called, gently at first, and then more loudly, but, as she had anticipated, there was no response.

Going close to the door, she called again and again, and then concluded it was useless.
She threw herself into an easy chair, thoroughly angry with Ray Rose, and chagrined at herself for being led into such a trap.
"I might have known there was some trickery," she thought, "when that girl called me over here at the last minute.

And she was so sweet and friendly today, it should have put me on my guard.