Note return — Chapter XX · THE GRANITE SARCOPHAGUS

“Nor do I—entirely.” Vance’s eyes were on Scarlett. “I advised him to keep away from here. He, too, knew the danger, and yet.… You remember Rider Haggard’s dedication of ‘Allan Quatermain’ to his son, wherein he spoke of the highest rank to which one can attain—the state and dignity of an English gentleman?[31]… Scarlett was an English gentleman. Knowing the peril, he came here to-night. He thought he might end the tragedy.”