'And a dry Heidsieck too! We're in luck, Dick, old man.' I never ate a more welcome meal, for we had starved in that dirty hotel.

But I had still the old feeling of the hunted, and before I began I asked about the door.
'That's all right,' said Sandy.

'My fellows are on the stair and at the gate.

If the _Metreb_ are in possession, you may bet that other people will keep off.

Your past is blotted out, clean vanished away, and you begin tomorrow morning with a new sheet.