"
Just as he said that, a boy appeared on the platform and announced that
owing to an important message Miss Blake was obliged to leave the hall
and could not accommodate with her second number, but that some one
else would try to fill her place.
A murmur of dissent arose from the audience.
"How could she get an important message here," Cora asked Ed.
"Where in the world could it come from?"
Jack pushed a chair for Hazel in line with the others.
"I am going outside for a moment," he said. "Take care of the girls
until I come back."
"All right," agreed the other young men.
"But don't run after Mabel," put in Walter with a laugh.
But that was exactly what Jack Kimball did.
CHAPTER X
MYSTERY UPON MYSTERY
Cora, healthy though she was, did not sleep well that night. Jack
did not return to the hall, and had left word with the doorkeeper
that he could not get back in time to see his sister but would run
up from his bungalow early the next morning. It was early now, and
next morning, but Jack had not kept his word.
No one but Cora and Hazel had any idea that this might mean anything
important.
"It was so strange, the way that man acted," said Hazel to Cora, as
the two made their way to the spring for fresh water. "First he
watched you, then when Mabel Blake appeared he kept his eye on her.
And such eyes! I believe he could hypnotize any one.
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