Rowland and his companions instantly started in pursuit, leaving the lady to recover as she might.

They tracked the fugitive to the Mint; but, like hounds at fault, they here lost all scent of their prey.

Meantime, the lady had overtaken them; but, terrified by the menaces of her vindictive kinsmen, she did not dare to reveal herself to her husband, of whose concealment on the roof of the very house the party were searching she was aware.

Aided by an individual, who was acquainted with a secret outlet from the tenement, Darrell escaped.

Before his departure, he gave his assistant a glove.
That glove is still preserved.