Here is a police message.
Will' Annie Mossity, last seen at the first house of the Ardluck Empire, communicate with her husband and family, who are anxious to get in touch with her as soon as possible.
Mrs. Mossity is five feet nothing, thickskinned, with oval complexion, fishy eyes, shapeless build, aquiline ears and stringy hair in a dreadful mess. She was wearing a black costume going green, odd shoes and stockings, and goodness knows what underneath. Speaks very loudly.
Stop Press—Whoa, she's turned up. Slicko, the Great Illusionist, made her vanish from inside a big suitcase, but he's found her all trussed up inside a set of Chinese boxes. Bad luck.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.