I said, incisively:
"That will depend entirely upon you. You must not excite yourself. You must do as I tell you. I am going
to leave you now, to give orders for your nutrition. Also, I want your guards to remain in this room."
He said: "And still you tell me-nothing has happened."
"I don't intend to have anything happen." I leaned over him and whispered: "McCann has guards around
the Mandilip woman. She cannot run away."
He said: "But her servitors are more efficient than mine, Dr. Lowell!"
I looked at him sharply. His eyes were inscrutable. I went back to my office, deep in thought. What did
Ricori know?
At eleven o'clock McCann called me on the telephone. I was so glad to hear from him that I was angry.