The old gambler evinced considerable alarm until Lane explained how he happened to be there; and then his feeling changed to solicitude.
"Lane, you look awful," he said.
"If I look the way I feel it's no wonder you're shocked," returned Lane.
"Ahuh! What'd you see ?" queried the other, curiously.
"When ?" "Why, you numskull, while you were peepin' all that time." Lane sombrely shook his head.

"I couldn't tell--what I saw.

I want to forget....

Maybe in twenty-four hours I'll believe it was a nightmare." "Humph! Well, I'm here to tell you what _I've_ seen wasn't any nightmare," returned Pepper, with his shrewd gaze on Lane.

"But we needn't discuss that.