Of course, this conduct made the force only more distrustful of him than ever, and they would come and rout him out and ask him what he was doing there; and when he answered, "Nothing," he had merely come out for a stroll (it was then four o'clock in the morning), they looked as though they did not believe him, and two plain-clothes constables came home with him to see if he really did live where he had said he did.
Questa sua condotta, naturalmente, svegliò maggiormente i sospetti della polizia che cominciò a pedinarlo e a chiedergli che stesse facendo lì; e quand’egli rispondeva: — Nulla, — che faceva semplicemente una passeggiata (eran le quattro antimeridiane) lo guardavano come se non gli credessero, e due guardie travestite lo accompagnarono fino a casa per assicurarsi che abitasse realmente dove aveva dichiarato.