Urgent .-- HUME." He drove to the hotel, where David and Helen were sitting in the foyer awaiting his arrival.
Hume had kept his promise anent the barber.

He no longer desired to alter his appearance in any way, and had only grown a beard on account of his sensitiveness regarding his two trials at the Assizes.
But the fun of the affair had quite gone.
Helen was pale, David greatly perturbed.
"A terrible thing has happened," he said, in a low voice, when he grasped the barrister's hand.

"Someone tried to kill Bob an hour ago." The blank amazement on Brett's face caused him to add hurriedly: "It is quite true.

He had the narrowest escape.

He is in bed now.