Then I turned to Louis.
"Louis," I said, "so this is your adventure! This is the way you proposed to make use of me! You got me into that room and drugged me.

I was to lie there while you murdered that man with my weapon.
Then you would creep away, and in the morning there was I and the dead man! I was to be the tool,--the girl there the lure.

It was well worked out, Louis, but it was a coward's plan and a coward's trick!" I reached out my hand and took him by the collar.

I felt as though I were grasping some unclean insect, from whom the sting might shoot out at any moment.
"Have you anything to say ?" I asked.
"You do not understand," he said, in a low tone.

"I did not mean to put this thing upon you.