Like the cry of a pack of sleuth-hounds in the ear of the timid deer came these stern demands to Edward the king. |
He summoned private sleuth-hounds, and he put them on the trail. |
And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day. |
Surrounded by enemies more savage than sleuth-hounds, he assumed a humble disguise, and almost alone sailed to in an open boat for the Hebrides. |