“You are right about that,” said Geary. “I have tried both.”
“How are you going to get him away?” asked Gilmore.
“Well, call one, then, and let’s have done with the affair for good and all.”
Geary went out to call a carriage “for a sick man,” and the doctor went back to the motionless figure by the vault.
Gilmore watched him closely.
Finally he saw him take a bottle from his pocket and press it to Chick’s lips.
“What are you doing?” he demanded.
“Trying to get rid of this accursed smell,” was the cool reply.
“I wish you could take the stink out of the rooms upstairs,” said Gilmore.