them to me there on account of the law, but he promised to put them in
a box and have them delivered at the station, and there, in due course,
I found them.

But I was very uneasy until we found ourselves in the train. And then
at last everything was accomplished--our baggage upon the seats beside
us and our berths secured. At three precisely the train pulled out,
and Jacqueline nestled down beside me, and we looked at each other and
were happy.

And then, at the very moment when the wheels began to revolve, Leroux
stepped down from a neighbouring train. As he passed our window he
espied us.

He started and glared, and then he came racing back toward us, shaking
his fists and yelling vile expletives. He tried to swing himself
aboard in his fury despite the fact that the doors were all shut. A
porter pushed him back and the last I saw of him he was still pursuing
us, screaming with rage.

I knew that he would follow on the nine o'clock train, reaching Quebec
about five the following afternoon. That gave us five hours' grace.
It was not much, but it was something to have Jacqueline safe with me
even until the morrow.

I turned toward her, fearful that she had recognized the man and
realized the situation. But she was smiling happily at my side, and I
was confident then that, by virtue of that same mental inhibition, she
had neither seen nor heard the fellow.