The sufferer was lying motionless, and still breathing regularly.
Jeffreys took a step forward to look at his face.

At that moment the moonlight streamed in at the window and lit up the room.

Then, to his terror, he noticed that the patient was awake, and lying with eyes wide open gazing at the ceiling.

Suddenly, and before Jeffreys could withdraw, the eyes turned and met his.

For an instant they rested there vacantly, then a gasp and a shriek of horror proclaimed that Forrester had recognised him.
In a moment he was outside the door, and had closed it before the nurse started up from her slumber.
He had not been in his study a minute when he heard a sound of footsteps and whispered voices without.