"Nevertheless, that game has to stop."
"Who'll—say, kid, are you stringin' me, or are you drunk? Look me in the eye!"
CHAPTER VI
FEAR
Pierre turned and looked calmly upon the other.
And the man whispered in a sort of awe: "Well, I'll be damned!"
"Stand aside!"
The other fell back a pace, and Pierre went straight to the table and said to Cochrane: "Sir, I have come to take you home."
The old man looked up and rubbed his eyes as though waking from a sleep.