They upset everything and pried everywhere.
"You may find papers or letters," said the officer.

"Search thoroughly." And in every corner they rummaged, even to taking up a number of boards in the inner room which Elma had occupied.

But they found nothing.
A dozen times was the old wood-cutter questioned, but he stubbornly refused to admit that he had ever set eyes upon Elma, while I insisted on my right to return to Abo and see Boranski.

I knew, of course, by what we had overheard said by the prison-guards, that the Governor-General was extremely anxious to recapture the girl with whom, I frankly admit, I had now so utterly fallen in love.

And it appeared that no effort was being spared to search for us.