CLAYTON POINT OF VIEW.

Trent spent all the day with his goons and was not able to find any reliable information about Nadine's location. I concluded that she had had it planned all the while, and I started to succumb to the thought that she had actually outwitted me. I was seated in my office when the thought finally occurred to me. I groaned out loud and flung a pile of paper on the table to the floor. My personal assistant rushed in at the sound.

"Sir," she said, "is everything ...