SUSPENSE He found them as he had expected, the girl beside the couch, and the old man prone upon it, wrapped to the chin in a gaudy Navajo blanket.

But to-night his eyes were closed, a most unusual thing, and Byrne could look more closely at the aged face.

For on occasions when the eyes were wide, it was like looking into the throat of a searchlight to stare at the features--all was blurred.

He discovered now wrinkled and purple-stained lids under the deep shadow of the brows--and eyes were so sunken that there seemed to be no pupils there.

Over the cheek bones the skin was drawn so tightly that it shone, and the cheeks fell away into cadaverous hollows.