Von Rosen shuddered, rose, and closed his door.

The Persian cat came and sat in front of him, and gazed at him with jewel-like eyes.

There was an expression of almost human anxiety and curiosity upon the animal's face.

He came from a highly developed race; he and his forbears had always been with humans.

At times it seemed to Von Rosen as if the cat had a dumb knowledge of the most that he himself knew.