I feel queer today, queer inside me.

Now it would be a topping joke if some other complication should set in and fool us all again, wouldn't it ?" He could see the impression he was making on Cardigan.

Again his faith in the psychology of the mind found its absolute verification.
Cardigan, lifted unexpectedly out of the slough of despond by the very man whom he expected to condemn him, became from that moment, in the face of the mental reaction, almost hypersympathetic.

When finally he left the room, Kent was inwardly rejoicing.

For Cardigan had told him it would be some time before he was strong enough to stand on his feet.
He did not see Mercer all the rest of that day.