CHAPTER XI.
Toward the end of June, Lane's long vigil of watchfulness from the vantage-point at Colonel Pepper's apartment resulted in a confirmation of his worst fears.
One afternoon and evening of a warm, close day in early summer he lay and crouched on the attic floor above the club-rooms from three o'clock until one the next morning.

From time to time he had changed his position to rest.

But at the expiration of that protracted period of spying he was so exhausted from the physical strain and mental shock that he was unable to go home.

All the rest of the night he lay upon Colonel Pepper's couch, wide awake, consumed by pain and distress.

About daylight he fell into a sleep, fitful and full of nightmares, to be awakened around nine o'clock by Pepper.