But now Fame had come to her with broken wings and a cracked trumpet, and she shuddered at the sound of her own name harshly proclaimed through it.
It soon became evident that Roland Sefton had succeeded in getting away out of the country.

The police were at fault; and as no one in his own home knew how to communicate with him, no clew had been discovered by close surveillance of their movements.

Such vigilance could be kept up only for a few months at longest, and as the summer drew toward the end it ceased..