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'He meant, I believe,' replied Jane, 'to go to Epsom, the

place where they last changed horses, see the postilions, and

try if anything could be made out from them. His principal

object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach

which took them from Clapham. It had come with a fare

from London; and as he thought the circumstance of a

gentleman and lady's removing from one carriage into

another might be remarked, he meant to make inquiries at

Clapham. If he could anyhow discover at what house the

coachman had before set down his fare, he determined to

make inquiries there, and hoped it might not be impossible to

find out the stand and number of the coach. I do not know

of any other designs that he had formed; but he was in

such a hurry to be gone, and his spirits so greatly discom-

posed, that I had difficulty in finding out even so much as

this.'

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