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There then, awhile in chains we lay / In wintry dungeons, far from day; / But risen at last, with might and main, / Our iron fetters burst in twain. / Then all the horns were blown in town; / And to the ramparts clanging down, / All the giants leaped to horse, / And charged behind us, through the gorse. / -- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Every faculty in Felix was sharpened to its highest pitch as he lay down that night upon his comfortless bed aboard the _Sarah Dawkes_. The man on the wharf was a detective, and he was looking for Veronica. His source of information was doubtless some one of the men aboard the _George Barnes_. He was in the employment of the two wolves, and he had that invaluable clew which the police lacked. He knew that he had to hunt two runaways. There were sure to be persons who had seen them limping along towards the docks that night of terror, of lurid excitement and breathless escape. So long as you knew what you were looking for, they were not hard to trace.