When you have settled things, you can wake me up and give me your orders," and he suited the action to the word, for when I glanced at him again he was, or appeared to be, slumbering, just like a dog at its master's feet.
I looked at Ragnall in interrogation.
"I am going on," he said briefly.
"Despite the denial of these men of any complicity in your wife's fate ?" I asked.

"If their words are true, what have you to gain by this journey, Ragnall ?" "An interesting experience while it lasts; that is all.

Like Hans there, if what they say _is_ true, my future is a matter of complete indifference to me.

But I do not believe a word of what they say.
Something tells me that they know a great deal which they do not choose to repeat--about my wife I mean.

That is why they are so anxious that I should not accompany you." "You must judge for yourself," I answered doubtfully, "and I hope to Heaven that you are judging right.