But I heard him tell the cabman Cavendish-square." "Cavendish-square! Yes, I can guess where he was going.

But what could he want there ?" Gilbert said to himself, while the girl stared at him wonderingly, thinking that he, as well as the other gentleman, had gone distraught on account of Mr.Nowell's daughter.
"Thank you for answering my questions so patiently, and good-night," said Gilbert, slipping some silver into her hand; for his quick eye had observed the faded condition of her finery, and a general air of poverty conspicuous in her aspect.

"Stay," he added, taking out his card-case; "if you should hear anything farther of these people, I should be much obliged by your sending me word at that address." "I won't forget, sir; not that I think we're likely to hear any more of them, they being gone straight off to America." "Perhaps not.

But if you do hear anything, let me know." He had dismissed his cab on alighting in Coleman-street, believing that his journey was ended; but the walk to Cavendish-square was a short one, and he set out at a rapid pace.
The check that had befallen him was a severe one.

It seemed a deathblow to all hope, a dreary realization of that vague dread which had pursued him from the first.