He vowed never to rest till he had traced out the fugitive, and brought him back.
But he experienced more difficulty in the quest than he anticipated.

No one was better acquainted with the obscure quarters and hiding-places of London than he; but in none of these retreats could he discover the object of his search.

The potentates of Whitefriars and the Mint would not have dared to harbour such an offender as Mompesson, and would have given him up at once if he had sought refuge in their territories.

But Osmond satisfied himself, by a perquisition of every house in those sanctuaries, that he was not there.

Nor had any one been seen like him.
The asylum for "masterless men," near Smart's Quay, and all the other dens for thieves and criminals hiding from justice, in and about the metropolis, were searched, but with the like ill result.