Was it possible that Madame Wachner wished to warn her against telling
him of a fact which he was sure to discover for himself in the course of
a day or two?
CHAPTER XV
As Sylvia drove away alone from the station, she felt exceedingly
troubled and unhappy.
It was all very well for Madame Wachner to take the matter of Anna
Wolsky's disappearance from Lacville so philosophically. The Wachners'
acquaintance with Madame Wolsky had been really very slight, and they
naturally knew nothing of the Polish woman's inner nature and
temperament.
Sylvia told herself that Anna must have been in great trouble, and that
something very serious must have happened to her, before she could have
gone away like this, without saying anything about it.
If poor Anna had changed her mind, and gone to the Casino the day before,
she might, of course, have lost all her winnings and more. Sylvia
reminded herself that it stood to reason that if one could make hundreds
of pounds in an hour or two, then one might equally lose hundreds of
pounds in the same time. But somehow she could hardly believe that her
friend had been so foolish.
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