"Gone! What do you tell me, you fool ?" He was shaking the slim-boned native as if he were a man of straw.
"They went to the railroad at two o'clock at night, the coachman told me.

We only began our watch by your orders at daybreak.

She had been then gone four hours." Johnstone foamed in an impotent rage.
"Who is left in the house ?" he roared.
"Nobody, Sahib." tersely said the Hindu.
"Get out and send me Simpson!" the old man sternly said.

"Go back and watch that house till I have you relieved.

Tell me everyone who goes in or out!" And then the horrible fear that Willoughby or Abercromby had deceived him, began to dawn upon his excited mind.