Lie there and talk to your accomplice!" I sent him reeling across the room till he fell in the corner.

Then I walked out, closing the sitting-room door behind me,--out into the corridor and up the stairs into my own room.

Then I locked and bolted my own door and looked at my watch.

It was a quarter to three.

I took a Bradshaw from my bookcase, packed a few clothes myself, set an alarm clock for seven o'clock in the morning, and turned into bed.