18/48 I must think it over, and make enquiries." It was three days, indeed, before anything came of Soyera's visits to the Parsee trader; then he said: "I think that I have found out just the place of which you are in search. I spoke to a friend yesterday, and he at once mentioned one whom I wonder I had not thought of, at once. Some years ago a cadet, who came out here with a young wife, died shortly after his arrival. As he had only been four years in the service, the pension of his wife was but a small one. She did not go back to England, as widows generally do. |