"Do you feel like going ?" Howland straightened himself and fell back suddenly with a sharp cry.
"The devil!" he exclaimed.

After a moment he added, "There will be no other train for two days." As he raised a hand to his aching head, his other closed tightly about Jean's lithe brown fingers.

"I want to thank you for what you did, Croisset.

I don't know what happened.

I don't know who they were or why they tried to kill me.