"Go up to London and put an advertisement in the papers offering a reward for the discovery of my father.

He is of medium height, with grey hair, and has a clean-shaven face, with a scar on it----" "You describe the dead man, Diana." "But he has not lost a finger," continued Diana, as though she had not heard him.

"If my father, for fear of Lydia, is in hiding, he will come to you or me in answer to that advertisement." "But he must have seen the report of his death by violence in the papers, if indeed he is alive," urged Lucian, at his wit's end.
"My father is weak in the head, and perhaps was afraid to come out in the midst of such trouble.

But if you put in the advertisement that I--his daughter--am in England, he will come to me, for with me he knows he is safe.

Also call on Dr.Jorce, and find out the truth about Signor Ferruci." "And then ?" "Then when you have done these two things we shall see what will come of them.