CHAPTER XVIII MISS MYSTERY NO LONGER––––––––
TRASK, helped along by Fleming Stone, investigated the family tree of the Warings. But they ran up against a blank wall. As far as they could learn Doctor Waring never had brother or sister. His mother, who was a Truesdell, had also been an only child. But of course, Miss Mystery could be of the Truesdell family, and could, as Trask observed, be the same relation to John Waring’s mother that Trask was to John Waring’s father. Which relation was that of second cousin.
“It gives a reason for the girl’s presence here,” Stone said, “and as it’s the only reason we can think of, it must be followed up.”
“And I’ll follow it up,” Trask said, “if I once get hold of that girl. Where can she be, Mr. Stone?”
“Not very far away, I think, as all the stati
