Another little bother like this and she’d call off the debut; that would make good copy in the papers-”Wealthy Debutante Spurns Own Debut!”

At last the Cadillac drove off, following the route of the limousine.

But hardly had it come onto Second Avenue when, instead of taking the turn at Bellevue Drive, it swung off to the right, gathering speed.

Marcia’s irritation grew. Picking up the tube, she exclaimed, “This isn’t the way to the Waldorf, you fool! I’ll be late!”

“Not at all, Miss Marcia… the party won’t start without you” came back a suave voice but… was that Henry’s voice she heard? She could not be certain.

Presently the Cadillac swung off a side street, then to the highway en route to New Jersey.

By now Marcia was not so annoyed as uneasy; again she picked up the tube and exclaimed, “Where the devil are you going, Henry? I command you to take me to the Waldorf!”

A click-the chauffeur had turned off the mechanism controlling the tube so that she could neither speak nor hear.

And, pressing his, foot on the accelerator, he drove on down the highway, steadfast, not deigning to look back.

She grasped the handle of the door-to her consternation, she found it locked!

She was trapped-and where was this maniac taking her?

Now she was no longer disdainful or bored, but afraid and that emotion she had never before experienced; it struck at her perfect aloofness and aplomb with tenuous fingers of chilling portent.

She began to hammer on, the glass partition that separated her from the chauffeur; he did not notice her in the slightest, but, if anything, quickened his speed.

And so, she, tense, watching the.road, pounding against the glass, futilely trying to turn the handle, was being carried off-a prisoner in her own car, abducted by her own chauffeur.

The car sped on… night fell, adding to her anxiety, for now the driver turned the car off at a juncture of the highway and pursued a one way road hidden by great trees and bushes and, the darkness and mysterious quality of the unknown that lay ahead made her more and more apprehensive.