I'll send a doctor to him in a few minutes." De Courtois revived slightly under the stimulus of these emphatic directions.
"I haf not done ze wrong," he protested.

"Eet ees me who suffare, and I do not permeet dis interference wid my leebairty." "You see," said Steingall coolly.

"His mind is wandering already.
Just 'phone for a couple of attendants, will you, and I'll give them instructions.

I take full responsibility, of course." "But, monsieur----" cried the Frenchman.
"Would you mind getting a move on?
I am losing time here," said Steingall quietly to the clerk.
"I claim ze protection of my consul," sputtered de Courtois.
"Poor fellow! He is quite light-headed," said the detective sympathetically, addressing the company at large but speaking in French.

"I do hope most sincerely that I may arrest those infernal Hungarians to-night.