I hope there's no ill feeling between us, and that each will have whatever he deserves!" Cool! wonderfully cool, Robert thought, but he replied merely: "I trust so, too, and in that case it is easy to surmise what one of us would get." He sauntered back to his comrades, and, lest he attract their attention, he did not look toward the slaver again for a minute or two.

When he glanced in that direction he saw the man walking toward the door, not in any hurried manner, but as if he had all the time in the world, and need fear nobody.

Cool! wonderfully cool, Robert thought a second time.
The slaver went out, and Robert thought he caught a glimpse of a man meeting him, a second man in whose figure also there was something familiar.

They were gone in an instant, and he was tempted to spring up and follow them, because the figure of which he had seen but a little at the door reminded him nevertheless of Achille Garay, the spy..