A long strip of this apparently solid wall rolled up with a snap, hung over the two retreating men and fell again, and immediately Graham was alone with the newcomer and the purple-robed man with the flaxen beard.
For a space the thickset man took not the slightest notice of Graham, but proceeded to interrogate the other--obviously his subordinate---upon the treatment of their charge.

He spoke clearly, but in phrases only partially intelligible to Graham.

The awakening seemed not only a matter of surprise but of consternation and annoyance to him.

He was evidently profoundly excited.
"You must not confuse his mind by telling him things," he repeated again and again.

"You must not confuse his mind." His questions answered, he turned quickly and eyed the awakened sleeper with an ambiguous expression.
"Feel queer ?" he asked.
"Very." "The world, what you see of it, seems strange to you ?" "I suppose I have to live in it, strange as it seems." "I suppose so, now." "In the first place, hadn't I better have some clothes ?" "They--" said the thickset man and stopped, and the flaxen-bearded man met his eye and went away.