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`` She had forgotten all about the parting note of malediction which she had left behind her on the stand , as she stepped along the lane leading to the highway . `` He asked her to take his arm , and when they reached the public road , he inquired if she were game for a ten mile walk . `` She told him that she could walk to the end of the world with him , because she was so happy to be beside the only one on earth who had ever been kind to her -- since her father 's death . `` Then he explained the steps that he had taken , and must still take , to elude pursuit ; how that he had gone to the railway station and bought a first class ticket for the four o'clock express to London , and afterward , when the train came up , he had mingled with the crowd getting off and getting on , and so eluded observation , and had slipped away and hidden himself in the thicket until dark , so as to make every one concerned believe that he had gone off by the mail train alone to London . `` Now he told her that they must trudge straight on ten miles north , to take the train to Glasgow ; so that while people were hunting for them in the south , they would be safe in the north . `` As they walked on he told her that he wanted to get away from England and see the world -- the new world across the ocean . He had seen Europe summer after summer , traveling with his father and mother on the Continent .