"Ah, _Monsieur_, we meet again." The speaker was far from being
the debonair villain who had taunted Kane in the cavern among the
mountains. His clothes were rags; there were more lines in his face; he
had sunk lower in the years that had passed. Yet his eyes still gleamed
and danced with their old recklessness and his voice held the same
mocking timbre.
"The last time I heard that accursed voice," said Kane calmly, "was in
a cave, in darkness, whence you fled like a hunted rat."
"Aye, under different conditions," answered Le Loup imperturbably.
"What did you do after blundering about like an elephant in the dark?"