She kept a secret post office box no one knew about, possibly connected to her writing career. Arnold had fallen out with her father, who refused to let her move out of the house. Missing persons resource The Charley Project has the details, and they read like the pitch for a hard-boiled detective drama.
On the other hand, random internet theories suggest he maybe vanished through a wormhole. Yet others think he rode with the government forces and was captured and executed by Villa's men. Others think he was only wounded at Ojinaga and died of infection later. One of Pancho Villa's biographers claims Bierce rode with the famed revolutionary, dying as part of his army. Bierce's last communication said he was heading to Ojinaga, a town that fell in a terrible siege not long after. The Paris Review recounts some of the theories. To that question, there's no known answer. Unless you take the narrower view, the one that asks what the exact circumstances of Bierce's fate in Mexico were.
Gringos who didn't speak Spanish riding into the Mexican Revolution tended to end up either dead or briefly in terrible agony and then dead. Bierce rode off into the carnage of the Mexican Revolution, despite not speaking any Spanish and not having a clear action plan. One is to take a broader view, in which case here's the answer. There are two ways of looking at that question. By then, they were probably asking "Barbara who?" Her mother didn't really discover she was missing until 1952, and the press wasn't alerted until 1966. According to literary magazine Lapham's Quarterly, her husband barely bothered to look for her. She never returned, and no trace of her was ever found. In 1939, just 26 years old, Follet had an argument with her husband and left the house. The next history heard from the child prodigy was when she pulled her vanishing act. By age 16, Follett was working as a typist and fending for herself. After putting out just two novels, Follet was forced to give up writing when her father suddenly scarpered with a younger woman, leaving Follett and her mother penniless. Follet did indeed vanish, but that's not the reason you've never read any of her books.
You're probably steeling yourself to read the words "and then she vanished." Well, hold your horses. Everyone who read the book agreed Follett was going to be the next great American writer.
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