"My sister has been the companion of her journey from first to last." "Journey ?" Mr.Bowmore repeated, indignantly.

"I want to know, sir, what the journey means.

As an outraged father, I ask one plain question.

Why did you run away with my daughter ?" Bervie took a slip of paper from his pocket, and handed it to Percy with a smile.
It was a copy of the warrant which Justice Bervie's duty had compelled him to issue for the "arrest of Orlando Bowmore and Percy Linwood." There was no danger in divulging the secret now.

British warrants were waste-paper in France, in those days.
"I ran away with the bride," Bervie said coolly, "in the certain knowledge that you and Mr.Bowmore would run after me.