"Invariably, as I said, he has carried through his various projects successfully, and often with really laughable simplicity, under the very noses of our police. And not content with that, recently he has begun to fear detection so little, that first he invites it, and when the police are close upon him, seems actually to use them to perfect his escape.
"Some say that he likes delicate situations so much that he creates them merely for the pleasure of extricating himself from them. But as he has consistently extricated, from those delicate situations, so much more than himself, I do not press that view of Mr. Manling.
"However, I can safely press the view that—unless we upon this ship develop abilities exceeding those of the officers of the dozen details which have been pursuing Mr. Manling ashore—he can calmly proceed in taking from us whatever he fancies and walk off the dock at New York unmolested.
"For, though there is no doubt that our
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