I might lose her there, and only that coward Lilienthal would perhaps suspect.
He would have to keep his mouth shut, for he has his own tracks to cover, and he would easily believe that the pretty jade has run off and left me.

And he fears publicity.
"As for Leah, she loves me blindly, with a dog's fidelity; her boy will be true to his dam and drift on in silence--a sharp scoundrel! The world is an easy oyster for him to open.
"If--if I lose Irma, I'll have Leah over there with me.

My passport as August Meyer makes me invincible." And the scheming villain threw himself down to dream of a stroke of luck which should make him safe in Northern Europe, in the assumed character of "August Meyer," a second self which fitted him like a Guardsman's uniform.

"I can easily play off a long sickness, turn over the leases, and the brewer will run the 'Valkyrie.' My one hope and fear is Irma.

If she pulls this off I'll fix her; yes, I'll fix her!" He drifted away into a land of dreams, a far-off land, where, under the black shadows of the Norway firs, he could see the gleam of white hands thrown up despairingly in the icy waters.