1 Now he make his most effort to escape us.
2 Something may occur which will give me a chance to escape.
3 I had seen that the door was unlocked, and now escape was before me.
4 He escaped before without our help; to-night he shall escape with it.
5 He escaped before without our help; to-night he shall escape with it.
6 But if the day come before he get on shore, then, unless he be carried he cannot escape.
7 Ever since then I have taken care not to take off my hat or veil, and so have escaped their suspicions.
8 Thus, in fine, if he escape not on shore to-night, or before dawn, there will be the whole day lost to him.
9 I had lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the night-watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield had escaped.
10 For now that he think he is free from every trace of us all, and that he has escaped us with so many hours to him, then his selfish child-brain will whisper him to sleep.
11 We may then arrive in time; for if he escape not at night we shall come on him in daytime, boxed up and at our mercy; for he dare not be his true self, awake and visible, lest he be discovered.
12 As to the first, he evidently intended to arrive at Galatz, and sent invoice to Varna to deceive us lest we should ascertain his means of exit from England; his immediate and sole purpose then was to escape.