“No, not quite certain, but I can’t be very far out.”
“The names you have with you?”
“Yes, they are Jane Jenkins and Robert Bessant.”
“I dare say we shall find them. This way, if you please.”
Rawton was led by the old man into a small apartment, in which were a number of ponderous volumes ranged on shelves.
“We had better search the volume for 1858 first.”
“As you please.”
“Have you the paper with the names?”
“Yes—here it is.”
The old clerk began to look over the book. Page after page was gone over, but no such names could be found.