Dalaber stood a moment as though turned to stone as the full import of these words flashed into his mind.

Again he was conscious of the sensation as though cold water were being poured upon him.

He found himself shuddering strongly, and stepped out into the street to breathe the freshness of the air.

Almost at the moment two of his comrades and confederates, Udel and Diet by name, both of Corpus Christi College, chanced to come along the street, and Dalaber, catching each by an arm, drew them into the shelter of the doorway, and whispered to them the peril in which they all stood more or less involved.
If an inquiry were set on foot none could say where it would cease, or who might be suspected.

It was evident that Garret himself stood in imminent peril, and that to get him safely away from the city was the first duty incumbent upon them.