Where Is Alice? III

Last night was the first night in eleven years in which no cat lived in the house.  A cat has always lived in this house. I went out several more times in the rain with flashlight, keys, to search for Alice.  I kept the mudroom door open. I kept the porch lights on.  I left out food, and a little
blanket.  I had this sense she was close by, but unable to get free.   Torn between helplessness and the need to go back out and find her, I woke up multiple times and checked the mudroom. No cat.