Thank you very much for your information.

I have no doubt that it will be sufficient to decide any bets there may be about her." So saying, he took his seat in the gig again, and rowed back to the Osprey.

The skipper returned in the evening.
"No such craft has gone into Southampton or Portsmouth," he said; "so I have had my journey for nothing." "No, I don't think you have," George replied.

"It is something to know that she is not in either of the ports now, and has been to neither of them." George returned in time to send off a full account of what he had learned from the coast-guardsman by the mail that would be delivered in London that night.

On his return to town the next morning, Frank found the letter awaiting him; and at ten o'clock, after wiring to Hawkins and the steward to stock the yacht at once with provisions of all kinds for a long voyage, he went into the city and called upon the secretary at Lloyd's.
After giving his name, he told him that he believed that a young lady had been carried off forcibly in the craft, which he minutely described, and that he was desirous of having a telegram sent to every signal station between Hull and the Land's End, asking if such a craft had passed.
"Of course," he added, "I am ready to defray the expense of the telegrams and replies.