His resolve to leave Royston had apparently been arrived at very suddenly, for so far as we could discover, he had carried no luggage of any kind.

I could not help looking somewhat carefully round his room to see if he had taken the Stradivarius violin.

No trace of it or even of its case was to be seen, though it was difficult to imagine how he could have carried it with him on horseback.

There was, indeed, a locked travelling-trunk which Parnham was to bring with him later, and the instrument might, of course, have been in that; but I felt convinced that he had actually taken it with him in some way or other, and this proved afterwards to have been the case.
I shall draw a veil, my dear Edward, over the events which immediately followed your father's departure.

Even at this distance of time the memory is too inexpressibly bitter to allow me to do more than briefly allude to them.
A fortnight after John's departure, we left Royston and removed to Worth, wishing to get some sea-air, and to enjoy the late summer of the south coast.