Why has she stopped?
and where?
Those are, unfortunately, just the questions which we can't answer yet.
"My own opinion of the matter is, briefly, as follows: I don't think she has met with any serious accident.

Serious accidents, in nine cases out of ten, discover themselves.

My own notion is, that she has fallen into the hands of some person or persons interested in hiding her away, and sharp enough to know how to set about it.

Whether she is in their charge, with or without her own consent, is more than I can undertake to say at present.

I don't wish to raise false hopes or false fears; I wish to stop short at the opinion I have given already.
"In regard to the future, I may tell you that I have left one of my men in daily communication with the authorities.