"When?" asked the doctor.
"Just now. I just left him."
"There was no chance," said the doctor.
The nurse was about to pass on when the doctor detained her.
"That tall man," he said, "who was with him: where has he gone?"
The nurse looked at the doctor in surprise.
"There was no one with him but me," she said.
"Oh, yes," said the doctor. "I saw a man bending over the bed—a very tall man with a remarkable face. I wondered who he could be."
The nurse turned, and with the doctor looked over toward the bed where the body of James Neal lay.
"That is strange," said the nurse.