“From the cold he caught that night, I suppose?”

“Yes; that’s partly the cause. But,” he adds, with a diabolical grin, “more the medicine he has taken for it.”

“What mean you, Gregoire?”

“Only that Monsieur Dick has been delirious, and I saw danger in it. He was talking too wildly.”

“You’ve done something to keep him quiet?”

“I have.”

“What?”

“Given him a sleeping draught.”

“But he’ll wake up again; and then—”

“Then I’ll administer another dose of the anodyne.”