"Not a syllable. Is there anything wrong with him?"
"Ah! news seems to travel slowly down here. There was an inquest held this morning, not so many miles from this house."
The landlord shrugged his shoulders.
"I've been busy in-doors all day, and I haven't heard anything," he said.
Joyce told the story of his captain's fate, to which Dennis Wayman listened with every appearance of sympathy.
"And you've no idea what has become of the girl?" Harker asked, after having concluded his story.
"No more than the dead. She's cut and run, that's all I know."
"Has her father gone after her?"
"Not a bit of it. He's not that sort of man. She has chosen to take herself off, and her father will let her go her own way."
"And her grandfather, the old blind man?"