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Albert Routh, a little man of baffled hopes and cheated appetites, hurried down the lane near Milton Porcorum, he never dreamed that by nightfall he would be the most pursued and sought-for man in all England.
The chap in front had closed his shabby leather bag, was having some fool joke, was going, Routh took the cheque from ills pocket.
He knew that, really, Routh was on a big scale, was a being cast in a large mould, would rise to the grand occasion when it came.
Routh of the indomitable will, Routh the planning animal: the danger came when these were thrust aside by the long review of Routh the victim of circumstances, Routh doomed by Daddy, Routh spitefully beaten, Routh unjustly sacked, Routh demeaned and degraded in seedy travelling companies and troops of pierrots on the sands.
And as Routh recreated in himself the sense of a whole society with cruel hand outstretched and eager to pull the plug, terrifying hints of hidden and dangerous volitions rose up through his weak anger.
Beside him walked another Routh, a new and triumphant externalisation, Routh gigantic and terrible, Routh the destroyer.
In all this there was no reason why Routh should feel himself in the presence of something indefinably sinister.
At one moment the wall stretched unbroken before Routh, every foot of its well-pointed surface void in the bleak and shadowless sunlight.
Against the clamour of his every nerve, Routh found himself quickening his pace.
In his silence the uncertain flame of confidence that had leapt up in Routh flickered and went out.
He took a step forward and made a movement that Routh momentarily interpreted as the prelude to an ironical handshake.
He was standing over Routh with a brandy flask in his hand, and looking down at him with an appearance of whimsical benevolence.
The one thing that Routh must desperately conceal was any potentiality in himself for making a move or springing a surprise.
As they turned round one of these Routh stopped dead and gave a faint cry.
On the other hand Squire had already behaved so strangely and unwarrantably to Routh that there was no likelihood of any further trouble being made about the affair with his employee in the lane.