“I tell you it was no fancy,” he said angrily; and then, as the nurse held up a warning hand. “All right,” he added, “I’ll be calm.”
“Say something to him, Rich,” said Janet piteously.
Rich started, and then took Mark’s hand. “You say that you went to the house of a friend?” she whispered.
“Ye–es,” he replied hesitatingly.
“And that you partook of some medicine that was to make you sleep?”
He bowed his head slowly.
“And that your next clear recollection is of lying here, where you were brought after being found delirious by the police?”
“Yes, yes,” he said impatiently.
“Robbed?”
“Stripped of everything,” he said bitterly.