time I dined at your house,
way back last September, I think it was. I saw her on the stage at the
Globe, the opening night of _The Girl Up-stairs_, and I saw that she
recognized me. That's how I knew it was really she. And--well, I want
you to know this! I haven't told anybody that she was there."

"You needn't tell me that," said Rodney. "I'm sure of it. But I'm glad
you did tell me the other thing. But here's the situation: she's left
that company; left it, I believe, as a result of a talk I had with her
after I found her there, and I don't know where she is. The one thing I
have got to do just now is to find her. I've asked at the theater, and
they won't tell me. I imagine they're acting on her instructions. And as
I don't even know the name she goes by I've found it pretty hard to get
anywhere. I want you to help me."

"Her name there at the Globe was Doris Dane," said Jimmy, "and I imagine
that unless she's left the show business altogether she'll have kept it;
because it would be, in a small way, an asset. And, as she'll be easier
to find if she has stayed in the business than if she hasn't, why,
that's the presumption to begin on."

He lighted his pipe and lapsed into a thoughtful silence. "There are two
things she may have done," he went on after a while. "She may have gone
to New York, and in that case she's likely to have applied to the man
who put on _The Girl_ out here; that's John Galbraith. He took quite an
interest in her, I understand; believed she had a future. But the other
thing she may have done strikes me as a little more likely. How long ago
was it you talked to her?"

"It's the better part of two weeks," said Rodney.

"Well," said Jimmy, "they sent out a Number Two company of _The Girl
Up-Stairs_ a week ago last Sunday night. If she had any reason for
wanting to leave Chicago she might, I should think, have gone to them
and asked them to let her go out on the road with that. They wouldn't
have done it, of course, unless she'd convinced them that she was going
to quit the Chicago company anyway. But if she had convinced them of
that they'd have done it right enough. On the whole, that seems to me
the likeliest place to look."

"Yes," said Rodney, "I think it is. Well, have you any way of finding
out where the Number Two company is playing?"

Jimmy was rummaging in the litter of magazines on the top of his desk.
He pulled one out and searched among the back pages of it for a moment.

"Her