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At first, Nurse Barker could not credit the fact that Helen was gone. She looked around her, searching, in vain, for a small blue figure amid the crowded confusion of settees and chairs. Only the ginger cat--aroused by her noisy movements--jumped off an old-fashioned Prince of Wales divan, and stalked from the room.
Thoroughly aroused, she followed him into the hall, where she raised her voice in a shout.