But all these searchings took only a few seconds, and they were passed through so quickly that it almost seemed as if no results had been expected from them.
Then he turned to the bedrooms, and the first one he looked into contained two beds. One was unruffled and undisturbed, but upon the other were a small attache-case and some folded clothes.
"Not hers," he said, and in three strides he was looking into the other bedroom. His heart gave a big thud. Over a chair back hung a light grey frock and on the chest of drawers was a blue hat. On the narrow bed were a pair of grey silk stockings and a little heap of dainty lingerie, the latter evidently, from its abandon, hurriedly discarded.
The face of the detective went very red, for with the thoughts that possessed him for the girl it seeme
