"I will go and do it for you."
But five minutes later he came back, shaking his head. "I am sorry to say
the people at the Hotel de l'Horloge know nothing of Madame Wolsky. They
have had no news of her since you and she both left the place. I wonder
if the Wachners know more of her disappearance than they have told you?"
"What _do_ you mean?" asked Sylvia, very much surprised.
"They're such odd people," he said, in a dissatisfied voice. "And you
know they were always with your friend. When you were not there, they
hardly ever left her for a moment."
"But I thought I had told you how distressed they are about it? How they
waited for her last evening and how she never came? Oh no, the Wachners
know nothing," declared Sylvia confidently.
CHAPTER XVI
There is something very bewildering and distressing in the sudden
disappearance or even the absence of a human being to whose affectionate
and constant presence one has become accustomed. And as the hours went
by, and no letter or message arrived from Anna Wolsky, Sylvia became
seriously troubled, and spent much of her time walking to and from the
Pension Malfait.
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