Success had been blotted out with the loss of liberty wherewith to profit by it; and for those who had known me in the great gold camp and elsewhere in the West--my new friends--I was branded as an escaped convict.
Recall, once again, if you will, the three years of association with criminals, and the fact that I was at that moment under the ban of the law as an escaped convict.
I did not tell her that she was about to become the wife of an escaped convict; that her life must henceforth be lived under a threatening shadow; that her children, if she should have any, might be made to share the disgrace of their father.
To do so was to deliver himself up as an escaped convict.
You can at any moment denounce me as an escaped convict.
He led the most regular life that could be imagined, and no one would have suspected that this stout, placid-looking person could be an escaped convict.
You see, Chippy, if he is an escaped convict, he may be a very dangerous character to be at large.
I suppose anescaped convict is naturally inclined to be suspicious, and somehow or other I couldn't shake off the impression that I was being watched and followed.
Do you know what the penalties are for helping an escaped convict?
McMurtrie's methods of receiving an escaped convict were, to say the least, a trifle unusual.
You know the story that was going around about his being an escaped convict, or something of that sort?
I have even heard it said that he is an escaped convict.
What if I should tell you that you've been driving this morning with an escaped convict?
Don't you know that the boy who stole my property at your camp is connected with an escaped convict?
Before morning we may receive a call from the cowboys and the escaped convict.
We came in after an escaped convict," was the reply.
Here, where I can hand you over to the first trooper as an escaped convict if you are not kind to me.
You may be a very great man to other people, but to me you are merely my runaway husband--an escaped convict.
He told me after dinner to-night how his wife had been wrecked when a child, and how he had saved her life, and defended her from the rude hands of an escaped convict--one of the monsters our monstrous system breeds.
I will bring you to Australia, where the first trooper will arrest you at my bidding as an escaped convict.
To his mind it seemed to imply that the mysterious dweller of the strange cabin on Catamount Island must be an escaped convict, a desperate ruffian, who might take a notion to murder them all in their sleep.
And surely an escaped convict would be apt to always be on the alert for sounds calculated to spell danger to him.
That anyone would dare venture all the way up to that strange cabin in the darkness of the night, and even try and capture the desperate ruffian whom they now believed to be an escaped convict, amazed him.
An escaped convict is usually condemned to death; but I suppose they would not hang him,' said Dick.
Do you know that I am an escaped convict, with a price on my head this minute?
The Viceroy's private secretary to be domesticated with a "head-centre" and an escaped convict.
If they did so, it was a sure thing that I’d be nabbed, which must lead to the public knowledge that Clarence Sage, escaped convict, had not been drowned in the Hudson.
As an escaped convict, is it likely that Clarence Sage would lead an honest life?
But if you are Jacques Collin, and if he was, and knew that he was, the companion of an escaped convict, a sacrilegious wretch, all the crimes of which he is suspected by the law are more than probably true.
You are suspected of being Jacques Collin, an escaped convict, whose daring shrinks at nothing, not even at sacrilege!
Pale and exhausted, knowing nothing of what had happened at Esther's house during his absence, he only knew that he was the intimate ally of an escaped convict, a situation which enabled him to guess at disaster worse than death.
Keep your eyes open for an escaped convict," said the officer, casually.
I don't care if you are an officer, and he is an escaped convict!
You forget, my good friend, what it is to be a convict in a penal colony, and cannot know what it is to be an escaped convict in the midst of wilds and deserts which the foot of man has seldom trod; but such has been my fate.
Your uncle will, of course, imagine at first than I am an escaped convict.
He's concealing an escaped convict, and he knows it.
For her sake he had entered upon a plan to shield a criminal, to harbor an escaped convict.
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