I have just been informed that a month ago this criminal lunatic, as we must of course regard him, made his escape from the asylum where he was confined.

He arranged the whole thing with extraordinary cunning and intelligence, and we should probably have caught him long ago, were it not that he managed, when on his way out of the place, to annex a considerable sum of money in gold, with which the wages of the asylum staff were about to be paid.

It is owing to that fact that his escape was, very wrongly, concealed--" He stopped abruptly, as if sorry he had said so much, and a moment later the party were walking in Indian file through the turnstile, Sir John Burney leading the way.
Mrs.Bunting looked straight before her.

She felt--so she expressed it to her husband later--as if she had been turned to stone.
Even had she wished to do so, she had neither the time nor the power to warn her lodger of his danger, for Daisy and her companion were now coming down the room, bearing straight for the Commissioner of Police.

In another moment Mrs.Bunting's lodger and Sir John Burney were face to face.
Mr.Sleuth swerved to one side; there came a terrible change over his pale, narrow face; it became discomposed, livid with rage and terror.
But, to Mrs.Bunting's relief--yes, to her inexpressible relief -- Sir John Burney and his friends swept on.