I think it quite likely that accident helped the person employed by the husband to discover the wife and child.

Anyhow, Mrs.Linley and Kitty were seen in the streets of Hanover; seen, recognized, and followed.

The courier happened to be with them--luck again! For thirty years and more, he had been traveling in every part of Europe; there was not a landlord of the smallest pretensions anywhere who didn't know him and like him.

'I pretended not to see that anybody was following us,' he said (writing from Hanover to relieve my anxiety); 'and I took the ladies to a hotel.

The hotel possessed two merits from our point of view--it had a way out at the back, through the stables, and it was kept by a landlord who was an excellent good friend of mine.