I in my folly, two hours before, clicked the levers in their order for him to see; and it is from his hand the blood has flowed. See now upon his hand the mark of my last shot!"
"I find five shots," McAdams confirmed calmly, "and their appearance indicates that, as you have said, they were fired from the bed; but, unless your last night's visitor carried off the other, there should be six."
"Just in this way I point my pistol when I fire at him the last time!" Baraka willingly advanced to the bed, felt for and found an aperture in the scrollwork of its foot and put his finger through it. "Notice how I point—if it would not wound the hand of him opening the box!"
Hereford himself nodded to McAdams to admit it without objection; and, following the direction pointed by Baraka's finger, he
