“Hello!” he called out; “is it all over?”
“Yes; he’s locked up, if that’s what you mean.”
“Well, Doctor, you’ve had a pretty lively time of it, my man tells me.”
“It’s entirely owing to your forethought, in having Argot immediately watched, that some of us are alive at present.”
“You don’t say; well, let’s have a drink to celebrate the occasion. You look a little white around the gills, Doctor.”
After tossing down my second bracer, I said: “Well, Mr. Merritt, how do you feel about your bet now?”
“Oh, all right,” he answered, with a twinkle in his eye.
I stared at him in bewilderment. Then, remembering that of course he had not yet heard Madame’s story, I proceeded at once to impart it to him.
“Very curious,” was the only comment he made.