"That will delay you. You go right on after
them. Alice and I can get home all right. It isn't late."
"It will give me pleasure if the young ladies will allow me to send
them home in one of our cabs," put in the manager. "I am sorry that
any of our men was used in a criminal manner."
"It wasn't your fault," spoke Russ. "But I guess the girls will be
glad to be sent home. I'll keep on. I haven't any time to lose."
And while he sped off in his taxi, in pursuit of the men who were
trying to cheat him out of his patent, Ruth and Alice took their
places in another cab, and were driven back to the Fenmore Apartment.
CHAPTER XXV
THE CAPTURE
Mr. DeVere was rather worried when he reached home, and found his
daughters' note. He puzzled over what could have taken them out with
Russ, and went across the hall to inquire. By this time Mrs. Dalwood
had returned, and found the note her son had left.
There was not much information in it--Russ had not had time for
that--and the mystery seemed all the deeper.
"I wonder what I had better do?" asked Mr. DeVere of Mrs.
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