If you should hear of him, pray let us know, so that we may at least pay him the money which is due.' After one or two more questions (quite readily answered) relating to the date and the time of day at which Ferrari had left the palace, the courier took his leave.
He at once entered on the necessary investigations--without the slightest result so far as Ferrari was concerned.

Nobody had seen him.
Nobody appeared to have been taken into his confidence.

Nobody knew anything (that is to say, anything of the slightest importance) even about persons so distinguished as Lord and Lady Montbarry.

It was reported that her ladyship's English maid had left her, before the disappearance of Ferrari, to return to her relatives in her own country, and that Lady Montbarry had taken no steps to supply her place.

His lordship was described as being in delicate health.