"Oh, by no means. There was no one for next Sunday, and they were only too glad to have the pulpit filled."
"But will you risk it?"
He smiled confidently.
"If there is any danger, I shall get warning in plenty of time."
"To ensure your escape?"
"To vanish somehow."
"But why should you wait?"
He looked at me seriously and said deliberately—
"I have other schemes in my head—something even bigger. It is too early to talk yet, but it is worth running a little risk for."
I looked at this astonishing man with unconcealed admiration. Regulations, authorities, precautions, dangers, he seemed to treat as almost negligible. And I had seen how he could contrive and what he could effect.