H." "Confound it," said Phillip, "the noodle has fallen into her trap.

And she promised she would let him alone." He only stopped to send a note to Senator Dilworthy, telling him what he had found, and that he should go at once to New York, and then hastened to the railway station.

He had to wait an hour for a train, and when it did start it seemed to go at a snail's pace.
Philip was devoured with anxiety.

Where could they, have gone?
What was Laura's object in taking Harry?
Had the flight anything to do with Selby?
Would Harry be such a fool as to be dragged into some public scandal?
It seemed as if the train would never reach Baltimore.

Then there was a long delay at Havre de Grace.