Without waiting for more I snatched them up and my hat, and joined him, and in a moment we were running down the garden.

I looked back once before we passed the gate, and I saw the light streaming out through the door which.

I had left open; and I fancied that for an instant a figure darkened the gap.

But the fancy only strengthened the one single purpose, the iron resolve, which had taken possession of me and all my thoughts.

I must be first; I must anticipate the Lieutenant; I must make the arrest myself.