They must have gone to one of the other landing places." But at neither of these could he obtain any information.

There were several boys at each of them who had been there for hours, and they were unanimous in declaring that no ladies had landed there after dark at all.

He then walked up and down between the watch house and the club.
He had, when he landed, intended to go to the police office as soon as he had inquired at the landing stages--the natural impulse of an Englishman who has suffered loss or wrong--but the more he thought it over the more inexpedient did such a course seem to him.

It was highly improbable--indeed, it seemed to him impossible--that they could do more than he had in the matter.

The passage of two ladies through the crowded streets would scarcely have attracted the attention of anyone, and any idea of violence being used was out of the question.