(It was not correct, it may be well to state, although that has nothing to do with the case at this moment.) If he had but known that she contemplated paying ten thousand crowns for his surreptitious release, making herself criminally liable, and that he was expected to catch a night train across the border, it is only just to his manhood to say that he should have balked, even though the act were to cost him years of prison servitude--which, of course, was unlikely in the face of the explanation that would be made in proper time by the real Medcroft.

It thus may be seen that Brock not only had been vilely imprisoned twice in the same night, but that he was very much in the dark, notwithstanding his attempt to make light of the situation.
It occurred to him, at two o'clock, that pacing the floor in the agony of suspense was a very useless occupation.

He would go to bed.

Morning would bring relief and surcease to his troubled mind.

Constance was doubtless sound asleep in her room.