Wake or kill.

Ostrog's way." Graham was so astonished at these things that he had to interrupt, to make the old man repeat his words, to re-question vaguely, before he was sure of the meaning and folly of what he heard.

And his awakening had not been natural! Was that an old man's senile superstition, too, or had it any truth in it?
Feeling in the dark corners of his memory, he presently came on something that might conceivably be an impression of some such stimulating effect.

It dawned upon him that he had happened upon a lucky encounter, that at last he might learn something of the new age.

The old man wheezed awhile and spat, and then the piping, reminiscent voice resumed: "The first time they rejected him.