No doubt the young villain is well instructed in his lesson.

He knows that he may safely defy my power.
From threats I descended to entreaties.

I even endeavoured to wind the truth from him by artifice.

I promised him a part of the debt if he would enable me to recover the whole.

I offered him a considerable reward if he would merely afford me a clue by which I might trace him to his retreat; but all was insufficient.