They were now four hundred miles away from the scene of their crime.

There was nothing whatever to bring Wilchester people into that northern country, nothing to take Highmarket folk anywhere near Wilchester.

Neither he nor Mallalieu ever went far afield--London they avoided with particular care, lest they should meet any one there who had known them in the old days.

They had stopped at home, and minded their business, year in and year out.

Naturally, they had prospered.