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Everard Myatt -- or Catherton Hunt -- was lost again. Martin Hewitt had been / wholly successful, for he had recovered Mr. Bell's missing bonds; but / the police caught neither of the conspirators. Investigation at / Henning's lodgings showed that careful preparations must have been made / for an immediate flight if it should become necessary, and the flight / had taken place. The man in the hospital, who had been knocked down in / carrying from one to the other the extraordinary message that Hewitt / deciphered, remained insensible for a few days, and could not be / questioned till some time later still. Then he professed to have / forgotten all about the message on which he was going when he met his / accident, and the medical men in attendance informed the police that it / was quite possible that the fellow's statement was true.
He said that he / _did_ carry messages sometimes, when he could get a job, but he could / remember nothing of the message of the key, nor of who had sent him, nor / where he was to go. Nevertheless, the police, although they professed / to accept his statement, kept a wary eye on him after his discharge from / the hospital, for they had a very great suspicion that he knew more than / he chose to tell. But nothing more was heard of the accomplices till / another case of Martin Hewitt's brought the news, and that in a manner / strange enough.