He seemed to get little satisfaction out of his visit to us, and
in fact I think he made it more in a spirit of bravado than
anything else.
Lockwood had scarcely gone before Kennedy pulled out the
University schedule, and ran his finger down it.
"Alfonso ought to be at a lecture in the School of Mines," he said
finally, folding up the paper. "I wish you'd go over and see if he
is there, and, if he is, ask him to step into the laboratory."
The lecture was in progress all right, but when I peered into the
room it was evident that de Moche was not there. Norton was right.
The young man was neglecting his work. Evidently the repeated
rebuffs of Inez had worked havoc with him.
Nor was he at the hotel, as we found out by calling up.
There was only one other place that I could think of where he
would be likely to be and that was at the apartment of Inez.
Apparently the same idea occurred to Kennedy, for he suggested
going back to our observation point in the boarding-house and
finding out.
All the rest of the day we listened through the vocaphone, but
without finding out a thing of interest. Now and then we would try
the detective instrument, the little black disc in the back, but
with no better success.
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