He did not return.

I made inquiries and found that he had left the hotel at eight o'clock the previous evening.

To cut the matter short, ten days have now elapsed and he has not yet returned.
"I have been to the Embassy, to the police, and to the Morgue.
Nowhere have I found the slightest trace of him.

No one seems to take the least interest in his disappearance.

The police shrug their shoulders, and look at me as though I ought to understand--he will return very shortly they are quite sure.
At the Embassy they have begun to look upon me as a nuisance.
The Morgue--Heaven send that I may one day forget the horror of my hasty visits there.