For Perry Mason who had contacted his friend Paul Drake the ride up to the old cabin was too long. Where was Sally? There were two dead men in the cabin and Sally was not there. Thank goodness that Paul was driving for Perry was in no shape to do so.

Della was sitting at the kitchen table trying to think. Someone had kidnapped Sally and then taken her to the cabin. She had called Sally's Aunt Mary. The poor lady was devastated. Her husband had told her that he was going to go and find Sally if he and his friend Larry could do so. He had left just that day looking for her. 'They must have stumbled across the kidnapper and lost their lives. But where was Sally? She couldn't be with the murderer? Oh no that cannot be' Della thought to herself.

Meanwhile Gloria Statler had finally gotten a break at work. She was watching the television where they were carrying a story of a little girl who had been kidnapped. Her name was Sally Mason. Gloria thought of the call that she had received a few hours ago. The call was from a child by the name of Sally and she had wanted to talk to Mr. Mason. She had not taken down any information because the girl did not have the phone number where she could be reached. At the time she had thought it was a prank.

Gloria just about ran out of the room. She went to her desk and found the slip that she had started to fill out. She had not written down the time or anything just a message saying Sally. She went over to her supervisor . The supervisor couldn't believe what Gloria had handed her. She placed a call to the police immediately.

Lt Tragg who usually worked homicide was very concerned about the Mason case. Sally was a sweetheart and she had been kidnapped. Now her sweater had been found in the cabin along with two murder victims. He was thinking hard and trying to figure out where she was when he heard the phone call. A girl by the name of Sally had placed a call to the Mason answering service.

Lt Trgagg went over to the phone and asked that he could go with the detectives to the answering service. As the men went over to the center they talked to a lady named Gloria who had taken the call. The supervisor was busy going through the phone records. They had caller id and should be able to pick up the phone number.

In the meantime the police had been in contact with the telephone company to get the name and address of the person who had called the center sometime between the hours of ten and eleven that morning. Unfortunately the center handled over two hundred calls an hour and they had been very busy on that day. This was going to take time. The best thing for them was to get the number from the center itself.

LT Tragg took it upon himself to go through the records. Finally, after many hours of looking, they had come across a telephone number that was just twelve miles from the cabin where Sally's uncle and his friend had been murdered. 'Could a nine year old girl make it twelve miles on her own?' he thought to himself. 'Yes he thought that she might be able to.'

Sally woke up in the strange house. No one was home and she looked around. The house was a nice old home and there was two bedrooms upstairs. She looked at the pictures on the wall and saw a mother father and two girls. She looked at the time and saw that it was almost three in the afternoon. She reasoned that there was a road to the house now and it was time for her to walk into town.

As she was starting to get her backpack and get ready to go onto the road she heard the sound of a car coming into the driveway. 'Oh no they might be angry that I came into the house. I ate some of their food. ' she thought to herself. With that she ran and hid in the hall closet.

Ginny and Carl Wheeler had been at work all day and were tired. Their two girls Danielle and Brenda ran ahead. But when they walked in the house they were surprised. Someone had been there. There was a plate out where someone had made a sandwich and there was a backpack on the couch. They each ran out and got their parents.

Ginny was surprised and as she looked around she was sure that she heard something in the closet. As she opened the door there stood Sally. She was dirty, but otherwise all right. Ginny took her hand and led her out into the living room. She smiled at the little girl and all of the others starting asking her tons of questions. The girl was scared and Ginny hushed the rest of the family.

"Don't be afraid My name is Ginny Wheeler and this is my husband Carl and my two children Danielle and Brenda. Can you tell me your name?" she asked as tenderly as she could.

Sally looked at the four people who were standing in front of her and knew that she needed to trust someone. 'They might be able to call her mommy and daddy and then they could come and get me.' She looked at them and said my name is Sally Mason."

Ginny nearly fainted. This was the little girl who was all over the news. She had been kidnapped and was missing. They had found her sweater up in a cabin a few miles away. There had been two men murdered there and she needed to call the police.

"Can you help me find my mom and dad? I called them, but the answering lady said that she could not help me because I didn't know your phone number. I am sorry that I used your phone, but I was trying to call my daddy."

Ginny took the young girl in her arms and told her "You are safe now. We will call your daddy and then the police, all right?" she smiled.

Sally thought that maybe her mommy would be home. She might be sleeping but her nanny would be there. So she called the house. Della heard the phone ring and jumped up. She had been waiting for a call for hours. She picked up the phone it was Sally. She was all right and at a house that belonged to people with the name of Ginny and Carl Wheeler.

Words cannot express the feelings that Della had at that moment. Her little girl was safe and sound. She had to call Perry. "Oh Sally we have been so worried, but daddy is just a little bit away from you and I will call him. I promise he will be there shortly."

But just then Sally heard a car door and getting out of the car was her daddy. He had found her. She ran to him and he grabbed her and held her up in the air tears flowing down his tender eyes. Sally was safe and he was never going to let her out of his sight again.

Ginny told Della what was happening and as Della waited Perry got on the phone and told her that everything was all right that Sally was fine.