It's not your job, and you are not fit for it." He laid a peremptory hand upon his brother's shoulder.

"That's understood, is it?
You will not leave the hotel." He spoke with stern insistence, looking Scott straight in the eyes; and after a moment or two Scott yielded the point.
"All right, old chap! I'm not much good, I know.

But for heaven's sake, lose no time." "No time will be lost." Sir Eustace turned round upon the Colonel.

"We can't have any but young men on this job," he said.

"See if you can muster two or three to go with me, will you?
A doctor if possible! And we shall want blankets and restoratives and lanterns.