His breath came quickly.

In that camp there waited for Josephine and Croisset those who were playing the other half of the game in which he had been given a blind man's part! He did not reason or argue with himself.

He accepted the fact.

And no longer with hesitation his hand fell to his automatic, and he followed swiftly after Josephine and the half-breed.
He began to see what Jean had meant.

In the room he had simply prepared Josephine for this visit.