How does his name come to be with Frank's on the list of the missing ?" The question was a dangerous one to answer.

Steventon left it to Crayford to reply.

Once again he answered evasively.
"It doesn't follow, my dear," he said, "that the two men were missing together because their names happen to come together on the list." Clara instantly drew the inevitable conclusion from that ill-considered reply.
"Frank is missing from the party of relief," she said.

"Am I to understand that Wardour is missing from the huts ?" Both Crayford and Steventon hesitated.

Mrs.Crayford cast one indignant look at them, and told the necessary lie, without a moment's hesitation! "Yes!" she said.