The maid seemed to be absolutely unknown. Her brother was a
waiter, though where he worked we could not find out, for he
seemed to be one of those who are constantly shifting their
positions.
Garrick had notified Dillon of what he had discovered, in a
general way, and had asked him to detail some men to conduct the
search secretly for Miss Winslow and her aunt, but without any
better results than we had obtained. Apparently the department
stores had swallowed them up for the time being and we could only
wait impatiently, trusting that all would turn out right in the
end. Still, I could not help having some forebodings in the
matter.
It was in the middle of the afternoon that we had gone downtown to
Garrick's office, after stopping to secure the letter from the
safe in the uptown hotel where it had been deposited for security
during the night and placing it in a safety deposit vault where
Garrick kept some of his own valuables. Garrick had selected his
office as a vantage point to which any news of Miss Winslow and
her aunt might be sent by those whom we had out searching.
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