My very desperation made me ingenious, and it was not till I had been away a month with my ill-gotten booty that the frauds were discovered." Again he stopped, and I waited with strangely perturbed feelings till he resumed.
"At first I tried to hide myself, and spent some weeks abroad.

But though I escaped justice, my misery followed me.

During those weeks, I, who till then had been upright and honest, knew not a moment's peace.
At night I never slept an hour together, by day I trembled at every face I met.

The new torture was worse than the old, and at last in sheer despair I returned to London and courted detection.

It seemed as if they would never find me.