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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 discomposed, that I had

difficulty in finding out even so much as this."

CHAPTER XLVIII.