"You will come and have a look at the patient in a day or two ?" "I'll stroll across as soon as you've got rid of some of this houseful," the doctor promised.

"Good night!" The two men parted, and curiously enough Dominey was conscious that with those few awkward words of farewell some part of the incipient antagonism between them had been buried.

Left to himself, he wandered for some moments up and down the great, dimly lit hall.

A strange restlessness seemed to have fastened itself upon him.

He stood for a time by the dying fire, watching the grey ashes, stirred uneasily by the wind which howled down the chimney.