If you remain in York, if you attempt to communicate with Mr.Huxtable, that spy will find you out.

If, on the other hand, you leave the city before he comes (taking your departure by other means than the railway, of course) you put him in the same predicament as the clerk--you defy him to find a fresh trace of you.

There is my brief abstract of your present position.

What do you think of it ?" "I think it has one defect," said Magdalen.

"It ends in nothing." "Pardon me," retorted the captain.