question is, what shall we do with him? He is very much in the way
at present, and he must be disposed of at once, or we shall have more
trouble. How infinitely more to the purpose it would have been if he had
wisely determined to cut his own throat instead of Unorna's! But young
men are so thoughtless!"

"I will only say one thing," said the Wanderer, "and then I will leave
the direction to you. The poor fellow has been driven mad by Unorna's
caprice and cruelty. I am determined that he shall not be made to suffer
gratuitously anything more."

"Do you think that Unorna was intentionally cruel to him?" inquired
Keyork. "I can hardly believe that. She has not a cruel nature."

"You would have changed your mind, if you had seen her this afternoon.
But that is not the question. I will not allow him to be ill-treated."

"No, no! of course not!" Keyork answered with eager assent. "But
of course you will understand that we have to deal with a dangerous
lunatic, and that it may be necessary to use whatever means are most
sure and certain."

"I shall not quarrel with your means," the Wanderer said quietly,
"provided that there is no unnecessary brutality. If I see anything of
the kind I will take the matter into my own hands."

"Certainly, certainly!" said the other, eyeing with curiosity the
man who spoke so confidently of taking out of Keyork Arabian's grasp
whatever had once found its way into it.

"He shall be treated with every consideration," the Wanderer continued.
"Of course, if he is very violent, we shall have to use force."

"We will take the Individual with us," said Keyork. "He is very strong.
He has a trick of breaking silver florins with his thumbs and fingers
which is very pretty."

"I fancy that you and I could manage him. It is a pity that neither of
us has the faculty of hypnotising. This would be the proper time to use
it."

"A great pity. But there are other things that will do almost as well."

"What, for instance?"

"A little ether in a sponge. He would only struggle a moment, and
then he would be much more really unconscious than if he had been
hypnotised."

"Is it quite painless?"

"Quite, if you give it gradually. If you hurry the thing, the man feels
as though he were being smothered. But the real difficulty is what to do
with him, as I said before."

"Take him home and get a keeper from the lunatic asylum," the Wanderer
suggested.

"Then comes the whole question of an inquiry in