When I realized everything, I could have kicked myself for my stupidity.

Why should I have suspected him, however?
The very boldness of his scheme carried conviction with it! Certainly, Mr.Gideon Hayle was a foeman worthy of my steel, and I began to realize that, with such a man to deal with, the enterprise I had taken in hand was likely to prove a bigger affair than I had bargained for.
"Having failed in both his attempts to get me out of the way, his next move will be to leave England with as little delay as possible," I said to myself.

"If only I knew in what part of London he was staying, I'd ransack it for him, if I had to visit every house in order to do so.

As it is, he has a thousand different ways of escape, and unless luck favours me, I shall be unable to prevent him from taking his departure." At that moment there was a tap at the door and my clerk entered the room.
"Mr.Kitwater and Mr.Codd to see you, sir." "Show them in," I said, and a moment later the blind man and his companion were ushered into my presence.
Codd must have divined from the expression upon my face that I was not pleased to see them.
"You must forgive me for troubling you again so soon," said Kitwater, as he dropped into the chair I had placed for him, "but you can understand that we are really anxious about the affair.

Your letter tells us that you discovered that Hayle was in London a short time since, and that he had realized upon some of the stones.