No, Mr.Bayley, I am exceedingly sorry, but I have no option but to act as I am doing." "In that case I must wish you a very good-morning," he remarked, and took up his hat and umbrella.

I could see, however, that he was still reluctant to go.
"Good-morning," I answered.

"I hope your affairs in the Argentine may brighten before very long." He shook his head gloomily, and then left the office without another word.
When he had gone I answered some letters, gave some instructions to my managing clerk, and then donned my hat and set off for the office of the Shipping Company that had brought Gideon Hayle to England.
Unfortunately it transpired that they were not in a position to do very much in the way of helping me.

Mr.Bertram had certainly travelled home in one of their steamers, so the manager informed me, a boat that as a rule did not carry passengers.

He had landed at the docks, and from that moment they had neither seen nor heard anything of him.