I was but Gaydon, the warder.

None suspected that I was Simon Hart, the engineer, nor could they have suspected my nationality.

Why, therefore, should they have desired to kidnap a mere hospital attendant?
There can consequently be no doubt that the French inventor has been carried off; and if he was snatched from Healthful House it must have been in the hope of forcing his secret from him.
But I am reasoning on the supposition that Thomas Roch was carried off with me.

Is it so?
Yes--it must be--it is.

I can entertain no doubt whatever about it.