He did not get on well with his wife, and left Bath ten months before the murder.

I tried to trace where he went to, but could not.

He vanished from Bath quite unexpectedly, and four months later turned up in Geneva Square, as we know, but who killed him, or why he was killed, I can't say.

I'm afraid I'll have to give it up as a bad job, Mr.Denzil." "What! and lose a reward of five hundred pounds!" said Lucian.
"If it was five thousand, I must lose it," returned the dejected Link.
"This case beats me.

I don't believe the murderer will ever be run down." "Upon my word, I am inclined to agree with you," said Denzil, and barrister and detective departed, each convinced that the Vrain case was ended, and that in the face of the insuperable obstacles presented by it there was not the slightest chance of avenging the murder of the unfortunate man.