I remember very well what he replied.--'I'm not going to say one word more to any man living, Mr.Gilwaters,' he answered determinedly.

'I shall be dead to the world--only because I've been a trusting fool!--for ten years or thereabouts, but, when I come back to it, I'll let the world see what revenge means! Go away!' he concluded.

'I won't say one word more.' And--I left him." "And--you made no more inquiries ?--about the wife ?" asked Bryce.
"I did what I could," replied Mr.Gilwaters.

"I made some inquiry in the neighbourhood in which they had lived.

All I could discover was that Mrs.Brake had disappeared under extraordinarily mysterious circumstances.