ell. It was answered by the thick-set Olaf. He was dressed, as usua

said, "has Mi

me," said the ot

then as the man was leaving the room: "Where

shortly. "I get some tim

nel nodd

ou do,

n, had he known it. This was the third sign of re

our temper this morni

ccent. "You tell me I shall haf plenty money, thousands of pounds! You say I go to my brothe

a moment I can allow you to go away. You're getting nervous, that's wha

en I walk in the street, every man I meet is a policeman. When I go to be

id the colonel, ey

n shi

k who had stood beside the bed in which the Scandinavian lay an

ression that the appearance of the previous night h

nodded

Marsh to me

t any rate, was becoming an intolerable nuisance. The colonel ma

doll-like way, with an aura of golden hair about her small head. She might have been more than pretty but for her eyes, which were to

" said the colonel. "D

no

y good view of

he se

sm

said; "besides, what d

girl wi

ook he

l after a pause. "Can yo

rsed h

ience of the night before, she was to be disappointed. The hard ey

girl. "He is not the man to fal

mean?" aske

e his picking me up and taking me to dinner and pouring

it worth your while to get close to that fellow. He's the one man in Scotland Yard that we want to put out o

ed for

Oh, come off it, colonel! Just te

decidedly. "You've got to put him as wrong as

reputation?" asked th

said the colonel drily, "and I reckon it'

ered her chin

going to be like young Spillsbury--Pinto Silva could h

has ever happened in our business! And I've told you a hundred times not to mention Pinto or any

ry agility and leant ove

llie, and giving yourself airs! You don't try a

slow or ponderous or courtly. He spoke rapidly and harshl

ribly suggestive motion and the frightened girl watched him, fascinated. "I'll break you as if you were a bit of china! I'll tear you as if you were a rag! You needn't think you'll e

as on her feet now,

altered. "I didn't intend g

ith a quick gesture, motioned her back to the cha

almly. "Get after that young fellow and do

self to speak, and almost ti

or he sto

said, "why, you can