Jervis and I can carry out these investigations without saying anything to Bellingham; my learned brother will look through the register of burials--not forgetting the cremations--in the metropolitan area, and I will take the other matter in hand." "You really think that John Bellingham may still be alive ?" said I.
"Since his body has not been found, it is obviously a possibility.

I think it in the highest degree improbable, but the improbable has to be investigated before it can be excluded." "It sounds like a rather hopeless quest," I remarked.

"How do you propose to begin ?" "I think of beginning at the British Museum.

The people there may be able to throw some light on his movements.

I know that there are some important excavations in progress at Heliopolis--in fact, the Director of the Egyptian Department is out there at the present moment; and Doctor Norbury, who is taking his place temporarily, is an old friend of John Bellingham's.