Were released at same time, and seen in the town an hour or two later, after which they disappeared--a man who spoke to M.says that M.told him they were going to emigrate.

They are believed to have gone to Argentine.

Both had relatives in Wilchester, but either they don't know anything of M.& C.'s subsequent doings, or they keep silence.

No further trace of money, and opinion still divided as to what they really did with it: many people in W.
firmly convinced that they had it safely planted, and have gone to it." To Brereton the whole affair was now as plain as a pikestaff.

The old detective, accidentally settling down at Highmarket, had recognized Mallalieu and Cotherstone, the prosperous tradesmen of that little, out-of-the-way town, as the Mallows and Chidforth whom he had seen in the dock at Wilchester, and he had revealed his knowledge to one or the other or both.