"You are acquainted with Mr. Keene?"
"Yes."
"Your name is Henry Jones?"
"It is."
"Why did you not come for me in person without writing the letter?"
"That might have been the proper way, but I am not like other people, Mr. Bordine. I am considered a peculiar man. It was a freak of mine, I suppose, that I did not do as you say. Fact is, I did not think it possible for me to leave Keene at the time I wrote the letter."
"You afterward found him better?"
"Slightly, yes."
"Is he badly hurt?"
"He will die."