Why should M. Polperro be so unwilling to
seek the help of the law in so simple a matter as this?
"I will go myself," she said.
And just then--they were standing in the hall together--the Comte de
Virieu came up.
"What is it you will do yourself, Madame?" he asked, smiling.
Sylvia turned to him eagerly.
"I feel that I should like to speak to the police about Anna Wolsky," she
exclaimed. "It is the first thing one would do in England if a friend
suddenly disappeared--in fact, the police are always looking for people
who have gone away in a mysterious manner. You see, I can't help being
afraid, Count Paul"--she lowered her voice--"that Anna has met with some
dreadful accident. She hasn't a friend in Paris! Suppose she is lying now
in some hospital, unable to make herself understood? I only wish that I
had a photograph of Anna that I could take to them."
"Well, there is a possibility that this may be so. But remember it is
even more probable that Madame Wolsky is quite well, and that she will be
annoyed at your taking any such step to find her."
"Yes," said Sylvia, slowly.
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