I could see that his niece noticed it too, and that she recoiled a little from him in consequence.

I thereupon set to work and told them of all that had happened since I had last seen them, described my lucky meeting with Hayle at Charing Cross, my chase after him across London, the trick he had played me at Foxwell's Hotel, and my consequent fruitless journey to Southampton.
"And he managed to escape you after all," said Kitwater.

"That man would outwit the Master of all Liars Himself.

He is out of England by this time, and we shall lose him." "He has not escaped me," I replied quietly.

"I know where he is, and I have got a man on his track." "Then where is he ?" asked Kitwater.