Also through the Khedive, on whom I was able to bring influence to bear by help of the British Government, I caused many harems in Egypt to be visited, entirely without result.

After this, leaving the inquiry in the hands of the British Consul and a firm of French lawyers, although in truth all hope had gone, I returned to England whither I had already sent Lady Longden, broken-hearted, for it occurred to me as possible that my wife might have drifted or been taken thither.

But here, too, there was no trace of her or of anybody who could possibly answer to her description.
So at last I came to the conclusion that her bones must lie somewhere at the bottom of the Nile, and gave way to despair." "Always a foolish thing to do," I remarked.
"You will say so indeed when you hear the end, Quatermain.

My bereavement and the sleeplessness which it caused prayed upon me so much, for now that the child was dead my wife was everything to me, that, I will tell you the truth, my brain became affected and like Job I cursed God in my heart and determined to die.

Indeed I should have died by my own hand, had it not been for Savage.