Happily, the exemption that had made them indignant enabled him to continue his journey with a full purse.

But he was content with a modest surveillance of the lady from the top of the coach.
On arriving at Stockton this surveillance became less easy.

It was the terminus of the stage-route, and the divergence of others by boat and rail.

If he were lucky enough to discover which one the lady took, his presence now would be more marked, and might excite her suspicion.

But here a circumstance, which he also believed to be providential, determined him.