“I can’t—I won’t—I must save you from yourself! I—Duke——”
He strikes at me—hits me, so that I stagger back—and, with an oath, he speeds from me and is gone.
I recover myself and am on the point of giving mad chase, when a thought strikes me and I rush into the building I have been all this time standing outside the door of.
CHAPTER XXVII.
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.
Tearing up the steps, I almost fell into the arms of our guide of the long, hideous night.
“Can I see it?” I cried.
“Steady, sir,” he said, staying and supporting me with a hand. “What’s up now?”
“I want to see it—there was a letter—I——”
“All property found on the body is took possession of.”
“He saw it, I tell you.”