Outrunning
He had known that he was straining his luck, sneaking around in Jenkins' Laboratory, but he couldn't get this shiny artifact out of his head which the old man had taken away from him.
And now, Ezekiel Jones was running as fast as he could so that Jenkins would not get him.
He had seemed really angry, considering that Jones had only broken some dumb, old cup standing half-hidden on Jenkins' desk.
Afterward, the thief stopped pretending that he could "outrun everything" and mostly kept his mouth shut when in Jenkins' presence.
At least, he did for a little while.