Chapter 47 276
She then proceeded to inquire into the measures which her father had intended to pursue , while in town , for the recovery of his daughter .
" 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 that 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 ."