You must ask Mr.Cunliffe about all that; my memory is apt to be treacherous about details.

I know Leah saw him with his hand in his brother's desk, and though Eric vowed it was only to put a letter there,--a very impertinent letter that he had written to his brother,--still the cheque was gone, and, as they heard afterwards, cashed by a very fair young man at some London Bank; and the next morning, after some terrible quarrel, during which Gladys fainted, poor girl, Eric disappeared, and the very next thing they heard of him, about three weeks afterwards, was that his watch and a pocket-book belonging to him had been picked up on the Brighton beach close to Hove.' 'Do you mean that this is all they have ever heard of him ?' 'Yes.

I believe Mr.Hamilton employed every means of ascertaining his fate.

For some months he refused to believe that he was dead.

I am not sure if Gladys believes it now.