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Chapter 11 THE CRIMINALS CHASE THE POLICESYME put the field-glasses from his eyes with an almost ghastly relief. "The President is not with them, anyhow," he said, and wiped his forehead. "But surely they are right away on the horizon," said the bewildered Colonel, blinking and but half recovered from Bull's hasty though polite explanation. "Could you possibly know your President among all those people?" "Could I know a white elephant among all those people!" answered Syme somewhat irritably. "As you very truly say, they are on the horizon; but if he were walking with them… by God! I believe this ground would shake." After an instant's pause the new man called Ratcliffe said with gloomy decision— "Of course the President isn't with them. I wish to Gemini he were. Much more