"If you agree to the bargain. Do you?"
I nodded.
He seized my hand and squeezed it hard.
"Then I'm off," he said. "You won't hear from me till I have news, good or bad. And meanwhile I have no address."
With that he was gone.
I felt as if he had left me alone in the dark.
CHAPTER VI
THE LAST SÉANCE
The only way in which I could keep Joyce with me for a little while longer was by pretending to be ill. That fetched her. And it wasn't all pretense, either, because I was horribly worried, not only about her and Robert, but about Jim. And about myself.