CHAPTER IX

THE SHADOWS THAT GO BEFORE Wolfenden forgot his anger at once. He hesitated for a moment, then he crossed the street and stood side by side with Felix upon the pavement. "I am glad to see that you are looking a sane man again," Wolfenden said, after they had exchanged the usual greetings. "You might have been in a much more uncomfortable place, after your last night's escapade." Felix shrugged his shoulders. "I think," he said, "that if I had succeeded a little discomfort would only have amused me. It is not pleasa…