One, the man who captured me; the other, the man who let my friend go free to-day.' 'It surprised you that I let him go?
That was prudence, M.de Cocheforet,' I replied.

'I am an old gambler.

I know when the stakes are too high for me.

The man who caught a lion in his wolf-pit had no great catch.' 'No, that is true,' he answered smiling, 'And yet--I find two men in your skin.' 'I daresay that there are two in most men's skins,' I answered with a sigh.

'But not always together.