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Nor was she comforted by Cutts 's assurance that Jasper , on finding himself deserted , would have no option but to abandon , or at least postpone , an enterprise that , undertaken singly , would be too rash even for his reckless temerity . As it had become the object of her life to save Losely from justice , so she now shrunk from denouncing to justice his meditated crime ; and the idea of recurring to Colonel Morley happily flashed upon her . Having thus explained to the reader these antecedents in the narrative , we return to Jasper . He did not rise till late at noon ; and as he was generally somewhat stupefied on rising by the drink he had taken the night before , and by the congested brain which the heaviness of such sleep produced , he could not at first believe that Cutts had altogether abandoned the enterprise -- rather thought that , with his habitual wariness , that Ulysses of the Profession had gone forth to collect further information in the neighbourhood of the proposed scene of action . He was not fully undeceived in this belief till somewhat late in the day , when , strolling into the stable-yard , the ostler , concluding from the gentleman 's goodly thews and size that he was a north-country grazier , delivered Cutts 's allegorical caution against the bullocks . Thus abandoned , Jasper 's desperate project only acquired a still more concentrated purpose and a ruder simplicity of action . His original idea , on first conceiving the plan of robbery , had been to enter into Darrell 's presence disguised and masked .