I don't figure he is anything to be afraid of, but I am not going to have the fellow gum-shoeing around.

I'll take his word to get out, and stay out; otherwise he and I are going to have a little seance of our own.

That's all there is about it." West had said nothing, watching the others, and waiting to choose some course of action.

His mind was confused, uncertain, yet he found encouragement in Hobart's statement of the case.

The fellow felt no serious fear of him; had no suspicion as yet that anyone believed Percival Coolidge murdered.