Keep him constantly in your thoughts.

If you can swear to him when we parade him before you with half-a-dozen other men, I shall soon strip the inquiry of its mystery." In the hall they were surrounded by a squad of reporters, and three photographers took flashlight pictures.
"Hello!" muttered the detective to Curtis, "they've found you! Now we must use our brains to get you out of this." They escaped the journalists by closing the door of the office on them.
Then the clerk was summoned, and solved the first difficulty by revealing a back-stairs exit by way of the basement.

An attendant was sent to Curtis's room, to pack a grip with some clothes and linen, and, by adroit maneuvering, the whole party got away from the hotel.
Steingall insisted on interviewing Lady Hermione that night.

He pointed out, reasonably enough, that she might possess a good deal of valuable information concerning Count Ladislas Vassilan; if, as Curtis believed was the case, she had already retired to rest, she must be aroused.

The hour was not so late, and Vassilan's movements in New York might be elucidated by knowledge of his previous career.
So Curtis announced that his bride was installed in the Plaza Hotel, and, while he and Devar escaped through the cellars, Steingall took Uncle Horace and Aunt Louisa boldly through the lobby.