My papers were collected with a tremulous hand, and consigned to the flames.

I then bade my landlord inform all visitants that I should not return till the next day, and once more hastened towards the river.
"My way led past the inn where one of the stages from Baltimore was accustomed to stop.

I was not unaware that Watson had possibly been brought in the coach which had recently arrived, and which now stood before the door of the inn.

The danger of my being descried or encountered by him as I passed did not fail to occur.

This was to be eluded by deviating from the main street.
"Scarcely had I turned a corner for this purpose when I was accosted by a young man whom I knew to be an inhabitant of the town, but with whom I had hitherto had no intercourse but what consisted in a transient salutation.