Chapter 55 THE PURSUIT

"Let not search and inquisition fail to bring

again those... runaways."

-As You Like It.

"Fetch me that handkerchief,

My mind misgives."

-Othello.

"Sharp goads the spur, and heavy falls the stroke,

Rattle the wheels, the reeking horses smoke."

-The Elopement.

ON the sudden appearance of old Peter in the deplorable conditi