There was no trace whatever of her.

And I speedily found that things were being said--the usual cruel suspicions, you know." "Such as--what ?" asked Bryce.
"That the amount of the defalcations was much larger than had been allowed to appear," replied Mr.Gilwaters.

"That Brake was a very clever rogue who had got the money safely planted somewhere abroad, and that his wife had gone off somewhere--Australia, or Canada, or some other far-off region--to await his release.

Of course, I didn't believe one word of all that.

But there was the fact--she had vanished! And eventually, I thought of Ransford, as having been Brake's great friend, so I tried to find him.