I don't know that he would go into the country--.

But he might, if--" They entered provisionally into the case, and for argument's sake supposed that Burnamy would take hold of the major's paper if he could be got at.

It really looked to March like a good chance for him, on Eltwin's showing; but he was not confident of Burnamy's turning up very soon, and he gave the major a pretty clear notion why, by entering into the young fellow's history for the last three months.
"Isn't it the very irony of fate ?" he said to his wife when he found her in their room with a cup of the same mud he had been drinking, and reported the facts to her.
"Irony ?" she said, with all the excitement he could have imagined or desired.

"Nothing of the kind.

It's a leading, if ever there was one.
It will be the easiest thing in the world to find Burnamy.