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At thirty-three minutes past seven he stood on the platform of the station at Southa Owen could possibly arrive

Making a few inquiries here, but too iation carefully and inductively, he went into the town

At the expiration of another half-hour he had visited seven hotels and inns, large and s the sa to that description, had been there A boy fro for the sahtly

He reflected awhile, struck again by a painful thought that they ht-boat

Then he hastened off to another quarter of the town to pursue his inquiries a hotels of the more old-fashioned and quiet class

His stained and weary appearance obtained for him but a modicum of civility, wherever he went, which made his task yet more difficult

He called at three several houses in this neighbourhood, with the same result as before He entered the door of the fourth house whilst the clock of the nearest church was striking eight

'Have a tall gentle?' he asked again, in words which had grown odd to his ears from very familiarity

'A new-h I didn't say so' 'They have taken a sitting-room and bedroom, number thirteen' 'Are they indoors?' 'I don't know Eliza!' 'Yes, entleraone on her errand

'No--nothing that I know of' 'Somebody did come and ask if a Mr and Mrs Masters, or so,' said another voice froe?' 'Of course they did not--they were not here--they didn't come till half-an-hour after that The e I told the like theirs, had been asked for, but they didn't seem to understand why it should be, and so the entleman is not in, but the lady is Who shall I say?' 'Nobody,' said Edward For it now beca His object in finding their whereabouts --apart from the wish to assist Owen--had been to see Manston, ask him flatly for an explanation, and confire in the presence of Cytherea--so as to prevent the possibility of the steward's pal her brother when he came But here were two important ram had not been received, and Cytherea was in the house alone