Again a rush of anger prompted the wizard to sacrifice his quondam pupil, and once more the youth's imperturbable coolness overawed him.

His surprise at meeting Jeffreys was very considerable; and at first it seemed to the quondam pupil that his old master was shy of him.

He held out his lens to his quondam pupil, who was about to take it from him when the door opened, and three men entered.

"Do you recognize your quondam pupil, professor?" he asked.

Then she put her head on one side and critically scanned her quondam pupils, giving them little nods of approval as she did so.