Only as he was most difficult in a foreign country, to put justice off the track If a man flies from France to escape punishment, he acta absurdly. Fancy a man and woman wardering about a country of whose language they are ignorant ;they attract atten tion at once, are observea, talked about, followed. They do not make a purchase which is not remarked They cannot make any rrovement without excitiir. cuiiosi.y. The further they 20 the .rer.ter their danger, Iftheychor. o cross the ocean »,nd go to free America, they must go aboard a ves-3l ;"at'd the moment they do that, 'hey may be consider i as £ood as lost. You might bet ;wenty to one tl ey woa'd find, on la ming on the 0. -r side, a detective on the pier a.jr:d with a warrant to arrest them. I would engage to find a Frenchman in eight dayseven inLondon, ur'ess he spoke pure enough English to pass for a citizenoftheUnitedKingdoTi. Such were Tremorel's reflections. He

recollected atVousand futile rttempts a fcur.dred surprising adventur-s, narrr'ed by the papt s;?nd it is certain that l:e gave up the idea of going abroac ' • < It's clear,' nied M. Plantal, ' pei. fectly plain and precise. We must look forthe fugitives in France.' 1 Yes,' replied M. Lecoq. '■ - ."ow let's find out whe.e and bow t pie can hide themselves in F ice. Would it be in the piivir:es?

Evidently not. In Border jx one of our largest cities, people s.are at a man who i~ noi a Bo delais. The shopkeepeis Jnthequ-ys say to their neighbors, ' Eh, do } ju k iow that man ?' There ?re two cities however ■where a man may p: ss unnoticed — Marseilles and Lyons, but both of these are distant, and to r"-.ch them a long journey rrust be risked — and nothing is so dargerous as the rail way, since the tc'eg.aph was estab lished. One can fly quickly, it is true but on entering a railway carriage a man shuts himself in, and until he gets out of it be remains under the thumb oi the police Tremorel knows all this as well as we do. 