Even Mrs.Clear does not know where he is.

You know she has put advertisements in the papers in the cypher he gave her--according to the arrangement between them--but Wrent has not turned up." "And Rhoda ?" "Rhoda is still missing.

The police are getting warrants out for the servant, for Wrent, for Mrs.Clear, and for Lydia Vrain.

Ferruci, luckily for himself and his family, has escaped the law by his own act.
It was the wisest thing the scoundrel could do to kill himself and avoid dishonour.

I must admit the man had pluck." "It is terrible! terrible! What will be the end of it ?" "Imprisonment for the lot, I expect, unless they can prove that Wrent murdered Clear; then they will hang him.