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someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
- Early that morning a peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their whereabouts.Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (96% in)
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