He rather liked the colonel, who
was, apparently, bluff and sincere.
As Ted was on his way to the bank which had issued the bill which he had
found in the haunted house, he stopped suddenly. He had just seen a
young woman enter a store hurriedly, and look at him over her shoulder
as she did so. She it was who had slipped the note of warning into his
pocket in the Union Station, in St. Louis.
Evidently she was trying to avoid him. But why? He wanted to thank her
for that kindly service, and, quite naturally, he had some curiosity to
know who she was.
Without apparently hurrying he followed her into the store, and looked
around for her. She was not in sight, and he walked up and down the
aisles between the counters, but could not find her.
Then he observed that there was a back door to the store, which opened
onto an arcade. She had escaped him through that, and Ted looked up and
down the arcade. At the far end, where it opened out into the public
square, a carriage stood, and a young lady was getting into it.
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