It was as if for the first time a window had opened for him, and he saw what Kedsty had seen.

And then, as the minutes passed, the fighting spirit in him rose again.

He was not of the sort to go under easily.

Personal danger had always stirred him to his greatest depths, and he had never confronted a danger greater than this he was facing now.

It was not a matter of leaping quickly and on the spur of the moment.