He will evade us if he possibly can.

The story of the roughs you have just told us shows that he is aware that you are on the trail, and, if I know him at all, he will try the old dodge, and put running water between you and himself as soon as possible.

As I said to you the other day, he knows the world as well as you know London, and, in spite of what people say, there are still plenty of places left in it where he can hide and we shall never find him.

With the money he stole from us he can make himself as comfortable as he pleases wherever he may happen to be.

To sum it all up, if he gets a week's start of us, we shall never set eyes on him again." "If that is so we must endeavour to make sure that he does not get that start," I replied.