CHAPTER XI.
FIVE WEEKS IN BACK CUP.
The situation is plain.

Ker Karraje knows who I am.

He knew who I was when he kidnapped Thomas Roch and his attendant.
How did this man manage to find out what I was able to keep from the staff of Healthful House?
How comes it that he knew that a French engineer was performing the duties of attendant to Thomas Roch?
I do not know how he discovered it, but the fact remains that he did.
Evidently he had means of information which must have been costly, but from which he has derived considerable profit.

Besides, men of his kidney do not count the cost when they wish to attain an end they have in view.
Henceforward Ker Karraje, or rather Engineer Serko, will replace me as attendant upon Thomas Roch.

Will he succeed better than I did?
God grant that he may not, that the civilized world may be spared such a misfortune! I did not reply to Ker Karraje's Parthian shot, for I was stricken dumb.