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The only reluctance he felt in granting the warrant related to his son 's intimate friend . But for the peremptory tone of your letter , I really believe he would have asked you to give Mr. Percy time for consideration . Not being rash enough to proceed to such an extreme as this , he slyly consulted the young man 's interests by declining , on formal grounds , to date the warrant earlier than the second of April . Please note that my visit to him was paid at noon , on the thirty-first of March . `` If the object of this delay -LRB- to which I was obliged to submit -RRB- is to offer a chance of escape to Mr. Percy , the same chance necessarily includes Mr. Bowmore , whose name is also in the warrant . Trust me to keep a watchful eye on both these gentlemen ; especially on Mr. Bowmore . He is the most dangerous man of the two , and the most likely , if he feels any suspicions , to slip through the fingers of the law .