My only chance is to prolong my opportunities.

Something may occur which will give me a chance to escape.

I saw in his eyes something of that gathering wrath which was manifest when he hurled that fair woman from him.

He explained to me that posts were few and uncertain, and that my writing now would ensure ease of mind to my friends.

And he assured me with so much impressiveness that he would countermand the later letters, which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay, that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion.