Frank was fairly stunned.
It was marvelous how the fugitive escaped him.
He was certainly the slipperiest customer Frank ever met.
It seemed as if he were pursued by the most extraordinary good luck in all his ventures to escape.
Telling the driver to take him back to where he had left the Pegasus, the inventor asked if he knew the name of the steamer, and the cabman replied:
“It was the Khedive.”
He then drove Frank away.
Rejoining his companions, Frank told them the news.
It made them wild.
But the detective said, consolingly: