"We are
lucky not to have been disturbed, but if we stay here we are
likely to be observed."
Cautiously we retraced our steps and were again on the street
without having alarmed any of the tenants of the flat through
which we had gained access to the roofs.
It was now the forenoon and, although Garrick instituted a search
in every place that he could think of where Mrs. de Laacey and
Violet Winslow might go, including the homes of those of their
friends whose names we could learn, it was without result. I don't
think there can be many searches more hopeless than to try to find
someone in New York when one has no idea where to look. Only
chance could possibly have thrown them in our way and chance did
not favour us.
There was nothing to do but wait for the time when Miss Winslow
might, of her own accord, turn up to visit her former maid for
whom she apparently had a high regard.
Inquiries as to the antecedents of Lucille De Veau were decidedly
unsatisfactory, not that they gave her a bad character, but
because there simply seemed to be nothing that we could find out.
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