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The night passed without incident, and the morning brought no new discovery. The carpet was taken up from the lower tower room, but no fresh light was thrown upon the affair, nor was the old woman's story corroborated by the finding of any mounds of earth which might have accumulated as the result of the suggested excavations. The detectives, however, remained and examined the country around 'The Towers' in all directions, but found no clue.
The mystery of the lawyer's disappearance soon got into the papers; a considerable reward was offered for any information which might lead to his discovery, and some of the society journals hinted at a scandal, and that he might readily have been found, not twenty miles from Sydney, if certain people wished it. It was indeed suggested by a journal circulating in Sydney, although not published there, that there were high officials in the Government departments who knew of Septimus Dorset's whereabouts, but who found it convenient to be silent. Of course vague innuendoes of this sort can never be answered, nor can the originators of them be brought to punishment, as they richly deserve to be.