Let us hear about your adventures first." I gave him a full account of my movements from the time when we parted to that of my arrival home, omitting no incident that I was able to remember and, as far as I could, reconstituting my exceedingly devious homeward route.
"Your retreat was masterly," he remarked with a broad smile.

"I should think that it would have utterly defeated any pursuer; and the only pity is that it was probably wasted on the desert air.

Your pursuer had by that time become a fugitive.

But you were wise to take these precautions, for, of course, Weiss might have followed you." "But I thought he was in Hamburg ?" "Did you?
You are a very confiding young gentleman, for a budding medical jurist.

Of course we don't know that he is not; but the fact that he has given Hamburg as his present whereabouts establishes a strong presumption that he is somewhere else.