He is the very Jew you saw with me yesterday." The lieutenant looked down in deep dejection, and, without saying a word, took up his cap and accompanied Anton to the inn at which Tinkeles was staying.
"It will be better that you should ask for him," said Anton on the way.
So the officer entered and asked every servant that he met, and then the landlord.

Schmeie had left in the middle of the previous day.

They hurried from the inn to the government offices, and there found that Tinkeles had taken out his passport for the Turkish frontier.

His departure made his warning appear the more important.

The longer they discussed the matter, the more excited the lieutenant became, and the less he knew what to do.