He may have been thinking that whatever he was wanting was likely to be under water.

And that shows another thing, if it is so." "Mrs.Busk, my head goes round with such a host of complications.

I do my best to think them out--and then there comes another!" "No, miss; this only clears things up a little.

If the man can not be sure whether what he is looking for is on land or under water, it seems to me almost to show that it was lost at the murder time in the dark and flurry.

A man would know if he dropped any thing in the water by daylight, from the splash and the ripple, and so on, for the stream is quite slow at that corner.