“But then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word, – or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle with ‘Ran away from the subscriber’ under it. The magic of the real presence of distress, – the imploring human eye, frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony, – these he had never tried.”
