And he had nothing to say to Kent that he had not previously said.

He simply could not go on with their plans.
And he requested Kent not to write to him again.

He was sorry, but that was his definite stand in the matter.
Even then Kent could not bring himself to believe.

All the rest of the day he tried to put himself in Fingers' brain, but his old trick of losing his personality in that of another failed him this time.

He could find no reason for the sudden change in Fingers, unless it was what Fingers had frankly confessed to Father Layonne--fear.