Frankly, I considered from the first that his mind was unhinged.

Therein I fancy lies the whole explanation of his silence and his voluntary disappearance.

I am assuming, of course, that there was nothing in England to make his absence desirable." "There was nothing," Brooks declared with conviction.

"That I can personally vouch for.

His life as a police-court missionary was the life of a militant martyr's, the life of a saint.