“Call her out here,” he said.
Claude’s heart seemed to sink within him.
He knew he could not call back the dead.
He wished for the door to open and admit some one; he would have rejoiced then, with his father’s fingers buried in his throat, to have seen Carter.
“I’ll give you one second, or to hades you go!” suddenly cried Perry Lamont.
Claude’s blood seemed to run cold.
One second to live!
What had become of George Richmond?
Why didn’t that worthy turn up to save him in the nick of time?
Why had he guided his father to that house and not home, where he would have had Opal for an ally?