For such a task, persons of trained sagacity and keen observation are needed.

And after all these eighteen years, or nearly nineteen now it must be, there can not be any thing to discover there." "But if I like, may I go there, cousin, if only to satisfy my own mind?
I am miserable now at Bruntsea, and Sir Montague Hockin wears me out." "Sir Montague Hockin!" Lord Castlewood exclaimed; "why, you did not tell me that he was there.

Wherever he is, you should not be." "I forgot to speak of him.

He does not live there, but is continually to and fro for bathing, or fishing, or rabbit-shooting, or any other pretext.

And he makes the place very unpleasant to me, kind as the Major and Mrs.Hockin are, because I can never make him out at all." "Do not try to do so," my cousin answered, looking at me earnestly; "be content to know nothing of him, my dear.