The ingenuous rascal books his passage here, knowing very well that it will be one of the first places at which we shall make inquiries, lets fall a 'Gideon', and then transfers his ticket to somebody else.

I suppose he didn't bargain for my getting out of that house in time to follow him, and to telegraph to Port Said.

Now that we are certain that he did not go that way, we must try and find out in what direction he did proceed." "And also what has become of the blind man and his companion," said Leglosse.

"They may be hot upon his trail, and if we can only discover them, and keep an eye on them, we may find out all we want to know.

But it is likely to prove a difficult task." We tried the various shipping offices, without success.