"Stop," he said. "I tell you to go. O Geoff! who is doing the cruel thing? You know—O my God! won't this nightmare cease?"
Geoffrey saw his lips quivering; his own also were not steady. He came close to him, and laid his hands on his shoulders.
"What have we done, Harry," he said, "that this should happen to us? You have answered me. But promise me one thing. I insist on that."
"I will promise you anything you think right to ask me, Geoff," said he, "and you know it, provided only it does not make me cancel what I have said, and what I have decided to do."
"It does not. It is simply this: Three times within the last ten days you have been in imminent danger. God knows what it all means, but it is certain that many dangers surround you on all sides. I ask you to promise to be careful. I don't ask you to consider all I have told you now; you must do that when you feel that you can. You promise me this?"
"Willingly."
"And let it be soon that you consider what I have said. Judge the thing as you would judge for another, and God send you the right judgment! That is all I want."
"Amen to that," said Harry.