Chapter 9
DORA COLEMAN closed her book and put it down. Then, rising from the deep chair in which she had been sitting, alternately reading and dreaming, she went out into the hall. Parker was at that moment bolting the door, for Mr. Coleman had been called away into the country, and had reluctantly complied with the urgent summons.
With one foot on the stair, the girl turned and looked at the unconscious butler with grave eyes.
"There has been no telephone call?"
"No, miss." Parker shook his head.
She took a few steps up the stairs, and then she stopped again.
"Parker, are you perfectly sure nothing else happened but what you said?"
"About Mr. Walton, miss? No, nothing else happened. I showed him up to the room. In fact, I wasn't going, only he didn't know where his room was. He lo
