Rudie?
Right-oh.

Sturgeon, Teppich, Padre, Captain?
Good! but look sharp, while I go inspect." He whispered to Rudolph.

"Come down, won't you, and help me with--you know." At the foot of the ladder, they met a man in white, with a white face in what might be the dawn, or the pallor of the late-risen moon.
"Is Hackh there ?" He hailed them in a dry voice, and cleared his throat, "Where is she?
Where's my wife ?" It was here, accordingly, while Heywood stooped over a tumbled object on the ground, that Rudolph told her husband what Bertha Forrester had chosen.

The words came harder than before, but at last he got rid of them.

His questioner stood very still.