"Yes, it's a habit which I taught her."
"That's the way they'll come."
"And you?"
"That's the way I shall come also."
"And do you know who the villain is?"
Lupin hesitated and then replied:
"No, I don't know…. And that is just how we shall find out. But, I implore you, keep cool. Not a word, not a movement, whatever happens!"
"I promise you."
"I want more than that, doctor. You must give me your word of honour."
"I give you my word of honour."
The doctor went away. Lupin at once climbed a neighbouring mound from which he could see the windows of the first and second floor. Several of them were lighted.
He waited for some little time. The lights went out one by one. Then, taking a direction opposite to that in which the doctor had gone, he branched off to the right and skirted th
