"And you remember, too," said the secretary, "the Cranes of Ibycus--" They rose at last from table.

Secretary and physician must return to their patron.

"I am going to hunt bed and sleep," said Glenfernie.
"To-morrow, if his lordship is recovered, we'll go see that church." In the rude, small bedchamber he found his Spanish servant.

Presently he would dismiss him, but first, "Tell me, Gil, of the banditti in these mountains." Gil told.

The foreigner who employed him asked questions, referred intelligently from answer to answer, and at last had in hand a compact body of information.