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If you're waking, call me early there's many a black, black eye, Horrex, but none so black as mine. Call me at eleven-fifteen, bringing with you this gentleman's blood in a bottle. Goo'-night, go to bye-bye. . . ." By the fleeting light of a street-lamp I saw his head drop forward, and a minute later he was gently snoring.
"Himself in ten pounds and a friend in another ten. He gave your name; and the policeman is waiting for the answer." "I see," said I; "but excuse me if I fail to see why, being apparently so impatient to bail him out, you have waited for me. Any respectable citizen would have served, with the money to back him. Why not have sent Horrex, for example?" "But I thought the the " "Surety?" I suggested.
We carried him to the servants' hall and laid him in an armchair, to rest our arms, while the motherly cook lifted his unconscious head to lay a pillow beneath it. As she did so, a bell jangled furiously on the wall above. "Good Lord!" Horrex turned a scared face up at it. "The library!" "What's the matter in the library?"
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