"Yes."

"He will go out from here, and free?"

"Free."

"And quite alone?"

"Quite alone."

"But he will go—"

"Wherever he likes," said Rodolph, interrupting the Chourineur with a meaning smile.

The black returned.

"Well, David, well, and how is Murphy?"

"He sleeps, my lord," said the doctor, despondingly; "his respiration is very difficult."