looked coldly at him and then turned away.

Just then the windows were opened, indicating that the mail was
sorted, and there was a rush on the part of the waiting crowd. Alice
and Angelina were swallowed up in it.

Cora, with bitterness in her heart, turned aside. There were tears
in her eyes, and she did not want Jack to see them.

As she looked down a corridor of the post-office, she saw a stooping
figure hurrying along. It was that of Sid Wilcox. And from another
corridor, crossing the main one, came a girl, who joined him.

The girl was Ida Giles, and as Cora watched them she saw Sid hand
Ida something that showed white in the gleam of an incandescent
lamp. It was evidently a letter.




CHAPTER XI

MOTORING OUTFITS


For days following the loss of the money and the finding of the
empty pocketbook every possible clue was followed up, both by the
police of New City and Chelton, and by many detectives, who were
lured on by the offered reward of five hundred dollars.