"He spent but little of the plunder! Here we have recovered nearly two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars in bills and good cheques! He evidently feared to attract attention by any undue luxury." They had removed every scrap of the belongings of both the fugitives.
"I can understand this wretched Leah, now," said Atwater.

"She would have been Braun's willing tool in hiding his final murder of Irma Gluyas.

Braun needed her aid, and would have given her the slave's dole of comfort.

But this beautiful wanderer! She hails with delight her return to America! Is it her frantic desire for vengeance?
She had learned to love poor Clayton! And her whole soul is fixed on Braun expiating the murder.

Prison she fears not." Neither man knew of the singer's fear lest an Austrian dungeon might open its iron cells to her, should Braun be discovered to be the fugitive Hugo Landor.
"No one can read a woman's heart!" mused McNerney.