He quickly put on the garments Philip gave him, brushed the tangles from his hair, and called upon Philip to examine him to make sure he had left no spot of blood on his face or neck.
"You have the time ?" he asked then.
Philip looked at his watch.
"It is eight o'clock." "And I must see Josephine--alone--before ten," said Jean quickly.

"You must arrange it, M'sieur.

No one must know that I have returned until I see her.

It is important.

It means--" "What ?" "The great God alone can answer that," replied Jean in a strange voice.
"Perhaps it will mean that to-morrow, or the next day, or the day after that M'sieur Weyman will know the secret we are keeping from him now, and will fight shoulder to shoulder with Jean Jacques Croisset in a fight that the wilderness will remember so long as there are tongues to tell of it!" There was nothing of boastfulness or of excitement in his words.