I saw Mrs.
Passford.

She told me that her brother-in-law, Captain Horatio Passford, had come to the house that day, with his son; and you are aware, I believe, that his daughter, Miss Florence, has been there all winter." "I know all about that.

Go ahead, Dallberg." "The two brothers had been shut up in the library all the afternoon, engaged in an earnest discussion; though the colonel's wife did not know what it was about.

Captain Horatio left Colonel Homer in the library some time in the evening, and the colonel remained there till after ten.
Then it was found that the captain had left the house secretly, with his daughter and his son; though some of the servants had seen the young man going up the road with Percy Pierson." "Exactly so; never mind the young man now.

The captain had left the house, and his daughter went with him ?" repeated the major, beginning to be a good deal excited.
"The house was searched, but they could not be found; and the young lady's trunk had been removed from her room.