However, when this had been accomplished, the main difficulty was conquered.

The hunchback, excited by the promise of more money, went at once to the Red Lion to inquire about the person whom he had driven there in his cab.

Robert followed him, and waited at the corner of the street.

The tidings brought by the cabman were of the most unexpected kind.

The murderer--I can write of him by no other name--had fallen ill on the very night when he was driven to the Red Lion, had taken to his bed there and then, and was still confined to it at that very moment.