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Clerk says he took three-thirty train on Northwestern for Lake Geneva . Can run him down in morning . Thursday morning the two little telegraph boys at Lake Geneva and the one at William 's Bay had a busy time of it , for Porter and McNally between them kept the wires hot ; but neither hide nor hair of Judge Alonzo Black could they discover . From ten o'clock on through an interminable day the messages kept coming back , ` not delivered . ' At half-past four Porter telephoned his lieutenant to go to the lake and continue the search in person . At seven Katherine and her father sat down to dinner . She had known all day that something was going wrong with her father 's affairs , and she could read in his silent preoccupied manner that he had not yet been able to see a way out of the difficulty .