He was not only older, but sharper, better acquainted with the city and its ways, and, whatever might be the strength of Cyprian's motives, his own were of such intensity that he thought of nothing else by day, and dreamed of nothing else by night.

He went to work, therefore, in the most systematic manner.

He first visited the ship Swordfish, lying at her wharf, saw her captain, and satisfied himself that as yet nobody at all corresponding to the description of Myrtle Hazard had been seen by any person on board.

He visited all the wharves, inquiring on every vessel where it seemed possible she might have been looking about.

Hotels, thoroughfares, every place where he might hear of her or meet her, were all searched.