ugh, for he did not know he had an acquaintance in the same house.
The two young men were in and out so irregularly that it was not very
strange that they did not happen to meet each other.

The young lawyer was far more likely to find Myrtle if she were in the
city than the other, even with the help of his cousin Edward. He was not
only older, but sharper, better acquainted with the city and its ways,
and, whatever might be the strength of Cyprian's motives, his own were
of such intensity that he thought of nothing else by day, and dreamed
of nothing else by night. He went to work, therefore, in the most
systematic manner. He first visited the ship Swordfish, lying at her
wharf, saw her captain, and satisfied himself that as yet nobody at all
corresponding to the description of Myrtle Hazard had been seen by any
person on board. He visited all the wharves, inquiring on every vessel
where it seemed possible she might have been looking about. Hotels,
thoroughfares, every place where he might hear of her or meet her, were
all searched. He took some of the police into his confidence, and had
half a dozen pairs of eyes besides his own opened pretty widely, to
discover the lost girl.

On Sunday, the 19th, he got the first hint which encouraged him to think
he was on the trail of his fugitive. He had gone down again to the wharf
where the Swordfish, advertised to sail the next day, was lying.
The captain was not on board, but one of the mates was there, and he
addressed his questions to him, not with any great hope of hearing
anything important, but determined to lose no chance, however small.
He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an
exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of
his demeanor. A youth corresponding to his description of Myrtle Hazard
in her probable disguise had been that morning on board the Swordfish,
making many inquires as to the hour at which she was to sail, and who
were to be the passengers, and remained some time on board, going all
over the vessel, examining her cabin accommodations, and saying he
should return to-morrow before she sailed,--doubtless intending to take
passage in her, as there was plenty of room on board. There could be
little question, from the description, who this young person was. It was
a rather delicate--looking, dark--haired youth, smooth-faced, somewhat
shy and bashful in his ways, and evidently excited and nervous. He
had app