Something will certainly happen, but the point is--what?
Something was very near happening when I turned up on that stoep, so near that I think it was lucky for you, or for Miss Heda, or both, that I have learned how to handle a pistol.

Now let me see your foot, and don't speak another word to me about all this business to-night.

I'd rather tackle it when I am clear-headed in the morning." Well, I examined his instep and leg very carefully and found that Rodd was right.

Although it still hurt him to walk, the wound was quite healed and all inflammation had gone from the limb.

Now it was only a question of time for the sinews to right themselves.