
Enola stuns Linthorn with his own cane and then helps Tewkesbury escape him by jumping off the train. However, she is soon dragged into the situation when Linthorn attacks the marquess and attempts to kill him. Enola wants nothing to do with him, concerned that he could get her into trouble. On the train, Tewkesbury emerges from hiding place to find his compartment occupied by Enola Holmes, who is also running away from her family. Nevertheless, a man named Linthorn, apparently in the family's employ, manages to board the train before it departs.

His family notices his absence and track him to the train station, but are unable to have the train stopped and searched. He takes a carriage to the station, where he bribes a porter to hide him in a carpet bag and leave him on the train. When he is nearly killed by a falling branch in the woods, he undergoes a personal crisis which prompts him to run away from home. Tewkesbury is set to inherit his father's estate, title and seat in the House of Lords however, he resists his family's desire for him to join the military.

Tewkesbury is the son and heir to the late Marquess of Basilwether, who was killed not long past in an apparent robbery.
