Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 26, No. 6, May 27, 1981

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They waited supper a full hour and when Felicity did not appear, Sonia left the room with a grim expression on her face. Darius kept on carving the wooden head of a new hand puppet. It was going to be a pretty girl, one he could control.

Sonia’s voice rang down the hall. “Her comb and brush are gone. Her eye makeup is gone.”

Darius set the puppet aside and went to stand in the doorway of his younger daughter’s room. He kept out of this room most of the time because the disarray depressed him.

“She’s run off. I think some of her clothes are gone too.”

“How can you tell?” Darius straightened a school book on the desk beside him. A heap of magazines cascaded to the floor. “Maybe she’s staying with one of her friends.”

“Without telling us? She always phones when she’s doing that.”

They discussed ringing Pamela and asking if Felicity had gone there. Darius was against causing the older sister any worry. “They never spend time together,” he argued.

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