You can't expect to break out of Dartmoor in a frock-coat.

He could do this, but he could not appreciably hurry the correspondence by which Pall Mall bargained a Frenchman in the forest of Dartmoor against an Englishman in the fortress of Briançon in the Hautes Alpes.

This part of the story concludes with the reception of this news by Lilian and Cyril, whose unintentional neglect has caused the miscarriage of a letter that would have enabled Henry to escape. IV."I Will Confess my Wickedness" Everard is free, and, wearing the grey suit of a discharged prisoner, is travelling from Dartmoor to London by train.