Here, take the watch--tell me what to do!' He was trying to press his watch upon me, and was exposing the paper and explaining it to me, when Adler appeared on the scene, about a dozen yards away.

I said to poor Kruger-- 'Put up your watch, I don't want it.

You shan't come to any harm.

Go, now; I must tell Adler his fortune.

Presently I will tell you how to escape the assassin; meantime I shall have to examine your thumbmark again.