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The mist had closed down and it was very thick outside, and Dr. Shillington had no difficulty in getting away unseen from the precincts of the house.
He knew the lie of the land quite well, and, plunging confidently into the solid wall of vapor, was swallowed up immediately. Three yards away he would have been invisible to anyone who had tried to follow, and so, with no apprehension that he was in danger, and clutching tightly to a bottle of chloroform that a minute before had been reposing in Dr. Bellhouse's bag, he ran at an easy pace in the direction of the sea.