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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: Long Island--and with the fear on me that we were being followed.
"Elmer and I were continually on the lookout for some way to
dispose of the box, but nothing presented itself. The driver,
who had become more and more impudent in his attitude and
outrageous in his charges, was now practically a spy upon us.
The necessity for ice made frequent stops imperative; at the same
time the increasing fear of pursuit made it agony for me to stop
anywhere.
"Today, at a road house thirty or forty miles from here, I made
certain that I was pursued. The very man from whom I had claimed
the box at the railway goods station in Newark confronted me. It
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