I have known some whose charity extended to the vermin on their own bodies." Mrs.Wesley sat tapping the mahogany gently with her finger-tips.
"To my thinking, the key of this mystery, if there be one, lies at Surat.

My brother had powerful enemies: his letters make that clear.
We must inquire into _them_--their numbers and the particular grudge they bore him--and also into the state of his mind.

He was not the sort of person to be kidnapped in open day." -- "By a Thames waterman, for instance, madam ?" said Captain Bewes, jocularly, but instantly changed his tone.

"You suggest that he may have disappeared on his own account?
To avoid his enemies, you mean ?" "As to his motives, sir, I say nothing: but it certainly looks to me as if he had planned to give you the slip." "Tut-tut!" exclaimed Matthew.

"And left his money behind?
Not likely!" "We have still his boxes to search--" "Under power of attorney," Sam suggested.