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Hillegarde stared at her. "I don't know what you mean."

But Sally was gone.

A few minutes later, Winslow, in his room, heard a rustling sound and saw pushed beneath his door a folded paper. He picked it up and read the scrawled words:

"I'm sorry,

Sally."

He read the note again, smiling; then put it in his pocket. The game was his! Red Ridinghood had walked in the wood, and the Wolf had caught her!