With as little success he searched unobtrusively all public rooms on the
main floor.
It was, of course, both possible and probable that "Karl," himself a guest
of the hotel, had crossed directly to the elevators and been whisked aloft
to his room.
With this in mind, Lanyard paused at the desk, asked permission to examine
the register and, being accommodated, was somewhat consoled; if his chase
had failed of its immediate objective, it now proved not altogether
fruitless. A majority of the _Assyrian_ survivors seemed to have elected to
stop at the Knickerbocker. One after another Lanyard, scanning the entries,
found these names:
Edmund O'Reilly--Detroit
Arturo Velasco--Buenos Aires
Bartlett Putnam--Philadelphia
Cecelia Brooke--London
Emil Dressier--Geneve
Half inclined to commit the imprudence of sending a name up to Miss
Brooke--any name but Andre Duchemin, Michael Lanyard, or Anthony
Ember--together with a message artfully worded to fix her interest without
giving comfort to the enemy, should it chance to go astray, the adventurer
hesitated by the desk; and of a sudden was satisfied that such a move would
be not only injudicious but waste of time; for, now that he paused to think
of it, he surmised that the young woman--"young and good-looking", on
Walker's word--who had called to see Colonel Stanistreet was none other
than this same Cecelia Brooke.
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