A Second Dancer Missing
Miss Grace Ancrum, it turned out, was known to the stage-doorman at the Theatre Royal, but had not been seen at the theatre since the second week of February, in consequence, as Mr. Cleaver understood it, of her having given notice and gone home to her people in Lincolnshire. A letter to Mr. Cleaver from Miss Ancrum had arrived in the middle of February, in which she had thanked him for his kindness and asked him to send on any letters that might come to the theatre for her to an address in Louth. Mr. Cleaver had sent on two. He had received no reply. He had not, until Wren asked him, thought this peculiar.
A telegram to the post-office in Louth, despatched under Wren's signature, returned within the day with the intelligence that no person of the name of Ancrum resided in the town or at the address given, nor had any letters been collected at the post-office for any such person. A second telegram to the Lincolnshire constabulary at Lincoln produced, two days later, a reply from a sergeant who had taken the trouble to ride out to the village from which the Ancrums were said to originate. Miss Grace Ancrum's mother was alive and living in a cottage on the green. She had last had a letter from her daughter in the first week of February, in which Grace had written of her intention to remain in London through the season. Mrs. Ancrum had not received any letter since. She had been