Chapter 13
THE SEALED PACKET"Is this Miss Strong?"
Jane, her face blanching, held the receiver in wavering hands
for a moment before she could muster courage to answer. She had
recognized Frederic Hoff's voice speaking. What could he want with
her now?
"It is Miss Strong," she managed to answer.
"This is Frederic Hoff. May I come in for a moment? It is most
important."
Again Jane hesitated. Frederic was the last person in the world
she felt like seeing just at this moment. Only five minutes before
she had arrived home from Chief Fleck's office. She was under
orders to hold herself in readiness to start immediately for the
scene of yesterday's accident. That this trip, unless their plans
miscarried, would inevitably result in the exposure and disgrace of
both the Hoffs she fe
