to his forehead.

"You say that Jean is missing?" Dane asked. "What has happened to her?
Tell me, quick."

"Yes, she has disappeared, and no one here knows what has become of
her."

With a groan Dane looked beseechingly at Davidson.

"Surely some one must have seen her," he declared. "Was she alone?
Was she out on the water? Was she in the woods? Perhaps she is lost,
and is wandering about trying to find her way home."

"That is not it, Dane. She was visiting at one of the houses early
last night, and stayed for about an hour. She left there for home, and
has not been seen since."

Dane made no reply. His brain was in a tumult. He tried to think, to
find some solution to the problem. Jean was gone! Where had she gone?
What had happened to her? His thoughts suddenly darted to Lupin, the
cowardly villain. Then he recalled what he had heard a few nights
before on the river as that mysterious canoe sped by in the darkness.
"Seth's looking after the plans," were the final words which had
reached his ears. Had those plans anything to do with Jean's
disappearance? he asked himself. Forgotten was everything else as with
lightning rapidity these thoughts surged through his mind. He came to
himself with a start, and was surprised to see that the Colonel had
left him, and was with Davidson at the door of his own house. He
hurried after him, and entered the house just as the bereaved father