She did not move.

"Come back, I tell you!"

"Don't kill me, Alonzo," she said faintly.

"I'm not going to kill you. Come back you—!" he cried with a vile expression.

Suddenly the door-bell rang, long and violently.

Both halted in throbbing surprise, so incongruous did an intrusion seem at such a crisis.

A second time the bell rang angrily, accompanied by a shower of knocks. Sheila started to the door.

"Stay there!" Bofinger cried, and advancing with a guilty fear he went to the door and opened it.

In the midst of a cloud of snow Sammamon rushed in, a warrant in his hand.