She nodded.
"Are you not dead for sleep?"
"It does not matter."
Breitmann's eyes opened, for his brain was wide awake. "Ferraud?"
"Yes. They wished me to say good-by for them."
"To me?" incredulously.
"They have none but good wishes."
"She will never know?"
"Not unless Mr. Fitzgerald tells her."
"Hildegarde, I had planned her abduction. Don't misunderstand. I have sunk low indeed, but not so low as that. I wanted to harry them. They would have left me free. She was to be a pawn. I shouldn't have hurt her."