CHAPTER XXXIII.

TIME FLIES.

Eighteen months passed away in England, and nothing more was heard of the two fugitives to Africa. Lady Emily's cup was very full indeed. On the self-same day she learned of her husband's death and her son's mysterious and unaccountable disappearance. From that moment forth, he was to her as if dead. After Granville left, no letter or news of him, direct or indirect, ever reached Tilgate. It was all most inexplicable. He had disappeared into space, and no man knew of him.

Cyril, too, had now almost given up hoping for news of Guy. Slowly the conviction forced itself deeper and still deeper upon his mind, in spite of Elma, that Guy was really Montague Nevitt's murderer. Else how account for Guy's sudden disappearance, and for the fact that he never even wrote home his whereabouts? Nay, Guy's letter itself left no doubt upon his mind. Cyril went through life now oppressed continually with the terrible burden of being a murderer's brother.

And indeed everybody else--except Elma Clifford--implicitly shared that opinion with him. Cyril was sure the unknown benefactor shared it too, for Guy's six thousand pounds were never paid in to his credit--as indeed how could they, since Colonel Kelmscott, who had promised to pay them, died before receiving the balance of the purchase money for the Dowlands estate? Cyril slank through the world, then, weighed down by his shame, for Guy and he were each other's doubles, and he always had a deep underlying conviction that, as Guy was in any particular, so also in the very fibre of his nature he himself was.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Whose husband died?
2. What happened to her son?
3. Where is she?
4. What is her son's name?
5. Did he write home?
6. Does anybody know where he is?
7. Who was killed
8. Was it a homicide?
9. Could the killer be charged with a crime?
10. Who might of done it?
11. Who is his brother?
12. Does he think he's the killer
13. Does everyone?
14. Who doesn't?
15. Is Guy missing?
16. What is Cyril's burden?
17. How does it make him fee?
18. Who was going to take care of Guy's money?
19. What was never paid?
20. Who passed away before he could get that done?
1. Lady Emily's.
2. He disappeared.
3. England.
4. Granville.
5. No.
6. No.
7. Montague Nevitt.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
10. Guy.
11. Cyril.
12. Yes.
13. No.
14. Elma Clifford.
15. Yes.
16. Being a murderer's brother.
17. Oppressed continually.
18. Unknown benefactor.
19. Six thousand pounds.
20. Colonel Kelmscott.