abduction? That Wren Salvey has been stolen-stolen, do you hear?"





CHAPTER XVI

A STRANGE MESSAGE


Uproarious laughter from the girls with the wild flowers aroused
Cora. Rob Roland was gone.

Had she fainted? Was that roaring in her ears just awakened
nerves?

"Cora! Oh, Cora! We had the most darling time," Bess was
bubbling. "You should have been along. Such a dear old farmer.
He showed us the queerest tables. And he had the nicest son.
Cora - What is the matter?"

"Oh," lisped Ray, "another Co-Ed message over the telephone."

"Cora, dear," exclaimed Gertrude, "we should not have left you all
alone. Are you ill?"

"Cora! Cora!" gasped Adele.

"Cora, dear!" sighed Tillie.