“Alone?”
“No, with some one else, who came running up the road—just as I was able to cry out a bit,” said the doctor.
“Was it a man, or a woman?” questioned Ralph, though he was very sure which it was.
“I could not see. They only said a few words, and those in a whisper. Directly they went off I started shouting.”
Ralph set about dragging him out of the brambles. Then he said: “So he didn’t gag you?”
“Oh, yes; he did, but not successfully.”
“What with?”
“With my silk scarf.
“There is a right way of gagging, but very few people know it,” said Ralph.
He snatched the scarf from the doctor and set about showing him that right way of gagging people.