"Would you know him again if you saw him without his hair and beard?"
He looked surprised, and then doubtful. "I don't know."
But at this point the attendant nurse came up, and intimated plainly that I was a trespasser and transgressor, and that the interview was ended.
"I'll come to-morrow and take you out for a drive, if the doctor thinks you are strong enough to go," I said, by way of keeping the door open for further details.
"I must go home," he said, querulously.
"The faster you get strong, the sooner you can go. Till to-morrow, then."
Jean walked beside me quietly and sedately till we were outside. Then she turned to me with a flash of intense feeling.
"What are you going to do for him?"
"Find Diavolo," I answered promptly.
"And make him give back the thousand dollars?"