CHAPTER XXX.
ELM COURT In Beaufort Street they only learnt that Waymark had not yet been home.
Thence they drove to the east, and stopped at a police-station, where Abraham saw the inspector.

The latter suggested that Mr.Woodstock should go through all the houses which Waymark would have visited; if that search proved fruitless, the police would pursue the matter.

Ida insisted on being allowed to accompanying him when the cab stopped at the end of Litany Lane.

She gazed about her like one who had been suddenly set down in a new country; this squalor and vileness, so familiar to her of old, affected her strangely under the present conditions.

The faces of people at whom she looked remained fresh in her memory for years after; the long confinement and the excitement which now possessed her resulted in preternatural acuteness of observation.