There! Now I have told you." Valentine was greatly astonished.
"Of me ?" he said.
"Yes.

There was a moment when the idea that I was alone with you made my blood run cold." "Good heavens!" "Do you wish I hadn't told you ?" "No, of course not.

But it is so extraordinary, so unnatural." "It is utterly gone now, thank God.

I say, we have resolved that we won't sit again, haven't we ?" "Yes; and what you have just told me makes me hate the whole thing.

The game seems a game no longer." When the door had closed upon Julian, Valentine sat down and wrote a note.
He addressed it to-- "Doctor Hermann Levillier, "Harley Street, W.," and laid it on his writing-table, so that it might be posted early the next morning..