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Why had he not mentioned or reported it ? Well , he thought it might have been some of the officers . `` They sometimes came out late and went in home the back way , '' whereat , in some confusion , Captain Langley dropped that phase of the investigation . By two o'clock that rig also had been trailed back to town , where it was lost in the tangle of wheel tracks . There Ennis and Field and several troopers , with one or two interested citizens , were in quest of tidings . There they were joined by Mayhew himself , who had one more hope . Dora had a friend , a few years older than herself , with whom she had been intimate at Fort Riley .