I have a commission from the family to find out, and a blank cheque to do it with." "Do you mean that he has disappeared, then ?" asked Tavernake.
"Off the face of the earth, sir," Pritchard replied.

"Something like two months ago, the young married couple, with Miss Beatrice, started for a holiday tour somewhere down in the west of England.

A few days after they started, Miss Beatrice comes back to London alone.

She goes to a boarding-house, is practically penniless, but she has shaken her sister--has, I believe, never spoken with her since.

A little later, Elizabeth alone turns up in London.