I could see that he was shaking with fear.
"Come, Louis," I said, "put my stick down and talk like a man, if you can." The stick fell from his fingers.

He had scarcely strength enough left to hold it.

Then the man who had been examining Delora's room came back and stepped past Louis up to me.
"I do not know why you are here, sir," he said.

"You may be mixed up in this affair or you may not be.

But if you are, let me warn you that you are on the wrong side.