"Four nights ago! She went out alone, you say ?" "How else?
She had no friends here.

Once or twice at my suggestion she had taken one of our guides with her, but she discontinued this as she fancied that it made her conspicuous.

She was all the time going round to places making inquiries about her brother." Duncombe felt himself suddenly precipitated into a new world--a nightmare of horrors.

He was no stranger in the city, and grim possibilities unfolded themselves before his eyes.

Four nights ago! "You have sent--to the police ?" "Naturally.