At break of day Halsey was waiting upon the road with a fairly good horse and a comfortable chaise.

Susannah never forgot the light that came to his eyes when he saw her approach; it was like dawn in paradise.
Angel Halsey was not without shrewd worldly wisdom.

He turned into a cross corduroy road that led through the woods, passing only some small clearings to the west of Palmyra, and thus by a detour avoiding that village, he returned again to the highroad between Canandaigua and Geneva.

The pursuers, upon failing to hear that the chaise had passed through Palmyra, might turn back, or if they had gone on they might have outstripped them on the road, and be in front rather than behind.

This danger peopled the long lonely road with possible enemies both before and behind.