I've got a personal and a selfish reason for wanting you with me.

It may be possible--just possible, I say--that I need you even more than you will need me." He held out his hand.

"Let me have your checks and I'll go ahead to the baggage car and arrange to have your dunnage thrown off with mine at the Frenchman's." David gave him the checks, and sat down after he had gone.

He began to realize that, for the first time in many months, he was taking a deep and growing interest in matters outside his own life.

The night and its happenings had kindled a strange fire within him, and the warmth of this fire ran through his veins and set his body and his brain tingling curiously.