You still want me to find her.

I will do my best, sir; but first, cannot you help me with a suggestion or two ?" "I ?" "There must be some clew to so sudden a freak on the part of a young and beautiful woman, who, I have taken pains to learn, has not only a clean record but a reputation for good sense.

The Fultons cannot supply it.
She has lived a seemingly open and happy life in their house, and the mystery is as great to them as to you.

But _you_, as her lover and now her husband, must have been favored with confidences not given to others.
Cannot you recall one likely to put us on the right track?
Some fact prior to the events of to-day, I mean; some fact connected with her past life; before she went to live with the Fultons ?" "No.

Yet let me think; let me think." Mr.Ransom dropped his face into his hands and sat for a moment silent.