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French was narrating his failure to the three others, when Quest in silence handed him a cablegram, a messenger had just brought. To Inspector French, Allguez, N.M. Very sorry. Craig gave us slip after leaving depot. Niece disappeared from address given. No clues at present. When are you returning? French swore softly for a moment. Then he dropped into a chair, exhausted.
French's hand tightened upon his revolver, and his eyes pierced the darkness to right and to left as he rode slowly back. "There'll be no trial if I can get the drop on him," he muttered. Away in the distance, John Chinaman was reaching Allguez, and the little party of cowboys rode into the camp without having seen a sign of him.
Craig reported burned in wreck but think you had better come on." "FRENCH, Samaritan Hospital, Allguez." "When can we start?" Laura exclaimed excitedly. Lenora clutched at Quest's arm. "I knew it," she declared simply. "I felt perfectly certain, when they left San Francisco, that something would happen. We haven't seen the end of Craig yet."
Quest, who had been studying a time-table, glanced once more at the dispatch. "Look here," he said, "Allguez isn't so far out of the way if we take the southern route to New York. Let's get a move on to-night." Laura led the way to the lift. She was in a state of rare discomposure. "To think that all the time we've been giddying round," she muttered, "that poor man has been lying in hospital!
"It's all right, cookie," he told them. "Don't you look so scared. This is just a bit of parley-vous business, that's all." The Professor held out a piece of paper. He handed it over to Craig. "Craig," he announced, "this is a dispatch which I found in Allguez with my letters. It is addressed to you, but under the circumstances you will scarcely wonder that I opened it. You had better read it."
In the distance the mail boy was already disappearing in a cloud of dust. "Sanford Quest and his assistants, accompanied by Professor Lord Ashleigh, arrived in Allguez a few days ago to look for John Craig, formerly servant to the scientist. Craig has not been seen since the accident to the Limited, a fortnight ago, and by many is supposed to have perished in the wreck.
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