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They then made their way to the street and
rode uptown in a car, where they registered at a quiet hotel.
Ted went immediately to the room assigned to him, locked the door, and
drew out the paper.
He could not conceive what it would contain, for he was far above the
vanity of thinking that the young woman who had stood by his side would
interest herself in him enough to write him a silly note.
"The man with the pointed beard!" thought Ted.
Of course, it was he who had caused the note to be slipped into his
pocket.
But why?
Taking a chair by the window, he slowly opened the note, observing at
the time that the same fragrance came from it as had filled the air
while the girl stood beside him in the station.
It was a sheet of pale-blue letter paper folded three times.
In the upper left-hand corner was an embossed crest, the head of a lion
rampant, and beneath it a dainty monogram, which he made out to be
"O. B. N.," or any one of the combinations of those letters. He could
not tell which combination was the correct one.


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