“Well, then, who the devil told me not to take him?”
“Did you get such orders?”
“I did.”
“When?”
“Just now, and I got more than that.”
“What did you get?”
“I heard a voice—where it came from I don’t see, but my hearing is good—and this is what it said—I will look about me and see that I am not knocked down after I tell what I heard.”
“Go on, and tell what you heard.”
“Faith, and I will tell every word of it. I heard—as you finished telling me to take him back—I heard a voice say: ‘The doors will not close behind—’”