If she had taken them at all, she must have done so just to pique
Janice, not understanding how really valuable the contents of the
box were. If possible, Mr. Day wished to recover the lost box
without the publicity of going to the police, both for Olga's
sake and for his own.

And then as Janice had told him, the taxicab driver had been in
the house. He had gone upstairs to the storeroom for Olga's
trunk--to the very room in which Janice had last seen the
treasure-box.

It might be that the driver was the person guilty of taking the
box. Olga might know nothing about it. Yet her disappearance
without informing her friends of her intention to leave
Greensboro looked suspicious.

Mr. Day had to search further. He had two other persons to
discover. One was Olga's "fella"; the other was the Swedish
taxicab driver.

From people who knew Olga around the pickle factories it was easy
to learn that Olga's friend was a hard working and estimable
young man named Willie Sangreen. Just at this time Willie was
away from home. They could tell Mr. Day nothing about Willie's
absence either at his boarding-house, or where he was employed.
But in both instances they were sure Willie would be back.

In hunting for the Swedish taxicab driver Mr. Day had even less
good fortune. There were two taxicab companies in Greensboro and