He is being carefully tended." "By whom--you alone ?" "By a doctor." "What doctor ?" "When I know your right to catechise me, I will answer," snarled the captain.
Mr Armstrong rang the bell.
"Light the fire here at once," said he to the maid, "and then send the messenger up." In the interval the two men stood eyeing one another, while the patient from time to time tossed on his pillow and muttered to himself.
Mr Armstrong hurriedly scrawled two notes.
"Take a cab, and leave this note at -- - Hospital.

Let the nurse I have asked for come back in the cab at once.

Then go on with this note to Sir William Dove, and bring word from him the earliest moment he can be here.

Don't lose an instant." "Captain Oliphant," said he, as soon as the messenger had gone, "three is too many for this room.

I am here to relieve guard.