He listened, and fancied the sound was diminishing with the distance.

Bland was probably leaving the country, though Johnny could not quite understand how Bland had managed to get the funds for a trip.

Perhaps he had taken up a passenger or two--or if not that, Bland undoubtedly had ways of raising money unknown to the honest.
Oh, well, what did it matter?
What did anything matter?
All the world was against John Ivan Jewel, and one treachery more or less could not alter greatly the black total.

Not one friendly face had he seen in the police court--since he did not call the reporters friendly.

Mary V had not been there, as he had half expected; nor Sudden, as he had feared.