If I do not do so, there will be a hue and cry for me, and by the time I return in the morning all London will know that I am missing.

I naturally should not wish this adventure to become a matter of common talk: in the first place, because the position in which you have placed me can scarcely be called a pleasant one; and secondly, because the success of your enterprise might lead others to make similar attempts on my person, or that of my colleagues.
Even now, I fear that my servants, when sufficiently recovered, will go to my house and give the alarm." "I do not think that that is likely to be the case, my lord," O'Neil said, "as we took the precaution of gagging and binding them, and laid them down some distance from the roadside.

If, on your return home, you find they have not arrived, you have but to send a couple of your servants out to release them.

You can give them strict orders that no word is to be said of the affair, and make them to understand you were attacked in error, and that the ruffians who took part in the outrage at once released you, upon discovering your identity." "Very good, sir," Godolphin said, with a grim smile.

"I must really compliment you all on your fertility of resource and invention.