It is that she slipped down the saloon in the dark, gained the deck and thence fell or threw herself into the Nile, which of course would have carried her body away.

As you may have heard, the Nile is full of bodies.

I myself saw two of them during that journey.

The Egyptian police and others were so convinced that this was what had happened that, notwithstanding the reward of a thousand pounds which I offered for any valuable information, they could scarcely be persuaded to continue the search." "You said that a wind was blowing and I understand that the shores are sandy, so I suppose that all footprints would have been filled in ?" He nodded and I went on.

"What is your own belief?
Do you think she was drowned ?" He countered my query with another of: "What do _you_ think ?" "I?
Oh! although I have no right to say so, I don't think at all.