What did it all mean?
"Have you heard anything of a report that the dagger has been
found?" demanded Kennedy abruptly.
"Why--no," she replied, greatly surprised, apparently.
"You were going out?" asked Kennedy with a significant glance at
the coat and veil.
"Only for a little ride with Alfonso, who has gone to hire a car,"
she answered quickly.
I felt sure that she had heard something about the dagger.
We had no further excuse for staying and on the way out, now that
he had satisfied himself that Whitney was not there, Craig
inquired at the office for him. They could tell us nothing of his
whereabouts, except that he had left in his car late in the
afternoon in a great hurry.
Kennedy stepped into a telephone booth and called up Lockwood, but
no one answered. Inquiry in the garages in the neighbourhood
finally located that at which Lockwood kept his car. There, all
that they could tell us was that the car had been filled with gas
and oil as if for a trip. Lockwood was gone, too.
Kennedy hastily ordered a touring car himself and placed it at a
corner of the Prince Edward Albert where he could watch two of the
entrances, while I waited on the next corner where I could see the
entrance on the other street.
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