I guess he didn't; I know he didn't.'

'Well, Bill,' I said, 'I can't blame you; I only blame myself; but if
you should see that woman go behind a curtain or door again, and
presently see a man come out, if he is the same in size and looks
anything like the one you saw to-night, you just follow him, and
you'll be on the right track.'

'Jim-mi-netti!'

'And, Bill, I want you to be on the Plaisance in the morning early,
and if the brunette starts out, don't lose her. If she has not
appeared by noon you may go down to the Plaza and look about there,
but get back to Midway by three o'clock; she'll show herself there
sooner or later.'

The next day Bill had nothing to report. The day following he had
followed her, late in the afternoon, when she had emerged from the
Turkish bazaar down Midway, and had seen her stop and speak to one of
the guards, then she had left the grounds by a Midway gate 'opposite
Hagenbeck's lion circus, ye know.'

'And I followed her,' he continued, 'till she come to that rest'runt
where you an' me see her git the letter; she turned off right by the
Midway gate, and went acrost to Wash'n'ton Avenue, an' down that till
she turned to come to the rest'runt. 'Twas most supper-time, and she
didn't come out no more, I'm sure, for I watched till most midnight,
an' there wa'n't no back way, I know, for I looked.'

I could well believe that she had taken a room as near the grounds as
possible, where she might rest when rest was required, and she was off
duty, and I did not doubt but that Delbras and Greenback Bob had each
a similar lair outside the White City, but conveniently near it.

This last report had been made to us on the morning of my visit to
Miss Jenrys, Bill having appeared at our quarters at an early hour,
and I had been studying the expediency of letting Miss Jenrys into the
history of her brunette acquaintance, as far as I myself knew it,
before visiting the two ladies, at last deciding that I would wait a
little and be guided by circumstances, the episode of Gerald Trent's
disappearance finally putting it altogether out of my mind.

On the morning after the attempt to drown the guard, Dave and I waited
for a time in our room, expecting a report from Bill, which might, we
hoped, throw some light upon the events of the night before. But he
did not appear; and after breakfasting together, Dave went back to our
room to await him, while I made haste toward the Emergency Hospital,
where our