"But how is that to be carried out?"
"Boldly."
"How boldly?"
"By going at once, I should advise, to his house, and asking the first one of his domestics you may happen to see."
"I will go over," cried George; "on such occasions as these one cannot act upon ceremony."
He seized his hat, and without waiting for a word from any one approving or condemning his going, off he went.
"If," said Henry, "we find that Varney has nothing to do with the matter, we are completely at fault."
"Completely," echoed Marchdale.
"In that case, admiral, I think we ought to defer to your feelings upon the subject, and do whatever you suggest should be done."
"I shall offer a hundred pounds reward to any one who can and will bring any news of Charles."