I begged him to tell me what the real truth was.

He was, I think, somewhat dazed by the sentence--but he was also sullen and morose.

I asked him where his wife and two children--one, a mere infant--were.

For I had already been to his private address and had found that Mrs.Brake had sold all the furniture and disappeared--completely.

No one--thereabouts, at any rate--knew where she was, or would tell me anything.