But we have first got to catch him, and that I mean to make my business, however long the search may take me." "Was anything taken last night, sir ?" "I don't know; I did not look.

We shall see to that when we go upstairs.
We may as well go indoors now; Sir Charles may be here in a few minutes, and I want to hear Dr.Holloway's report as to Mr.Bastow." "He does not suspect, I hope, sir ?" "No, thank God; my father never mentioned to him anything he heard about his son, or his suspicions, therefore he has no reason to believe that the fellow is not still in the convict prison at Sydney.

We shall keep it from him now, whatever happens; but it would, for his sake, be best that this shock should prove too much for him.

He has had a very hard time of it altogether." "He is terribly prostrate," the doctor reported when Mark joined him.

"I don't think that he will get over it.