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No such figure as his had been seen on any of the roads leading from the hotel, either by the early milkman, or by the belated coffee-stall keeper, or night cabman. Being asked what name the gentleman had given at the hotel, the book-keeper showed her record, with the equivocal name of "M. Dolaro."
"But what did the stranger do to put him in that condition, which seems something more than hypnotism?" "Ah," said Lefevre, "I don't yet understand it; but there are forces in Nature which few can comprehend, and which only one here and there can control and use." "M. Dolaro."
Alone, and lying idle in bed, it was but natural it was almost inevitable that the doctor's thoughts should begin to run upon the strange events and suspicions of the past two days; and their current setting strongly in one channel, made him long to be resolved whether or no the Man of the Crowd, the author of yesterday's outrage, the "M. Dolaro" of whom the detective had gone in search, and who, if captured, would be certainly overwhelmed with contumely, if not with punishment, whether or not that strange creature was Julius's father, or any relation at all of Julius.
"I am right, I believe, Dr Lefevre, in setting this down to the author of that other case you had, that from the Brighton train?" Lefevre thought he was right in that. "'M. Dolaro: that was the name. I had charge of the case, and was baffled. I shan't miss him this time.
He scarcely desired his capture, for he thought of the possible results to Julius, and yet Day after day passed, and still the man was unfound, and very soon a change came over Lefevre's life, which lifted it so far above the plane of his daily professional experience, that all speculation about the mysterious "M. Dolaro," and his probable relation to Julius, fell for a time into the dim background.
It happened, however, that just when all the bays and creeks of Dr Lefevre's attention were occupied, as by a springtide, with the excellent, the divine fortune that had come to him, when he seemed thus most completely divorced from anxious speculation about Julius Courtney and "M. Dolaro," his attention was suddenly and in unexpected fashion hurried again to the mystery.
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