I jumped up, calling for you, sir, and upset the screen." "Well?
well ?" demanded Sir Frank impatiently, and seeing that the man hesitated.
"I saw no one, sir.

All the same, I had an idea, and I have still, that a man came through the window and peered at me from behind the screen." "The man who attacked Mrs.Jasher ?" "I can't say, sir.

But there was someone.

At any rate he's gone again, if he really did come, and there is no chance of finding him.

It's like pea-soup outside." Hope and Random simultaneously stepped through the window, but could not see an inch before them, so thick was the sea-fog and so dense was the darkness.