That handkerchief, too, was the only clew to the murderers, and it was such a very vague one that the police were still vainly seeking the culprits, quite lost amid a variety of scents and despairing of success.

The handkerchief, which protruded from his breast pocket and showed an edging of red, was a trifle noisy; and the soft gray hat was hardly in keeping, but, on the whole, he was a dashing-looking chap.

Almost every eye was now cast out for the Dasher, and she was seen pulling with great difficultyfor a handkerchief of canvass would have been madnesstowards the shelter of a projecting mass of rock, in Carne Cove, in the comparatively smooth water behind which, Helston and myself were enabled with some difficulty to get aboard.

Almost every eye was now cast out for the Dasher, and she was seen pulling with great difficultyfor a handkerchief of canvass would have been madnesstowards the shelter of a projecting mass of rock, in Carne Cove, in the comparatively smooth water behind which, Helston and myself were enabled with some difficulty to get aboard.

The handkerchiefs were Warren's.

That handkerchief an Egyptian woman gave to my mother; the woman was a witch, and could read people's thoughts; she told my mother, while she kept it, it would make her amiable, and my father would love her; but, if she lost it, or gave it away, my father's fancy would turn, and he would lothe her as much as he had loved her.

The silk handkerchief was as much a feature of the Captain's appearance as the skull-cap.