He returned to Aleppo on hearing the tragic events I have related, and was busy in collecting such evidence as could be gleaned, and instituting inquiries after our missing countryman at the time I myself chanced to arrive in the city.
I assisted in his researches, but without avail.

The assassins remained undiscovered.

I do not myself doubt that they were mere vulgar robbers.
Sir Philip had a darker suspicion of which he made no secret to me; but as I confess that I thought the suspicion groundless, you will pardon me if I do not repeat it.

Whether since I left the East the Englishman's remains have been discovered, I know not.

Very probably; for I understand that his heirs have got hold of what fortune he left,--less than was generally supposed.