Chapter 51

Scribbling a note to her hostess--a note which contained more lame excuses for her eccentricity than were necessary--she put on her coat and went down to the charge room. The inspector to whom she had been introduced had gone out, visiting the patrols. Evidently he had not impressed upon the sergeant in charge the necessity for keeping a watchful eye upon the visitor, and he received her explanation for her return to the hotel with polite interest, until she mentioned the name of Surefoot Smith. Then he became very…