He fainted from loss of blood, while he was still repeating the words, "Go home! go home!"-- and still seeing, or fancying that he saw, the child stopping obstinately in the room, stupefied with terror.

Of the time at which she found the courage and the sense to run home, and of all that had happened after that, he was necessarily ignorant.

His next conscious impression was the impression, already recorded, of seeing Lucilla sitting by his bedside.
The account of the matter thus given by Oscar, was followed by a supplementary statement provided by the police.
The machinery of the law was put in action; and the village was kept in a fever of excitement for days together.

Never was there a more complete investigation--and never was a poorer result achieved.

Substantially, nothing was discovered beyond what I had already found out for myself.
The robbery was declared to have been (as I had supposed) a planned thing.