"Do you mean to say, then, that he is going without anything ?" "I am afraid," Laverick said kindly, "that we must take it for granted that your brother has got mixed up in some undesirable business or other.

He is nervously anxious to keep his whereabouts an entire secret.

He has been asking me whether any one has been to the office to inquire for him.

Under the circumstances, I think the best thing we can do is to humor him.

I shall buy him before to-morrow morning a cheap dressing-case and a ready-made suit of clothes, and a few things for the voyage.