But let me ask you this confidentially: Have you got a friend who would slip in and stab him in the back in case you were in an encounter and he was getting the better of you ?" Donald Whiting's eyes widened.

He looked at Linda amazed.
"Wouldn't that be going rather far ?" he asked.

"I think I have some fairly good friends among the fellows, but I don't know just whom I would want to ask to do me that small favor." "That is precisely the point," cried Linda.

"You haven't a friend you would ask; and you haven't a friend who would do it, if you did.

But don't believe for one second that Oka Sayye hasn't half a dozen who would make away with you at an unexpected time and in a secluded place, and vanish, if it would in any way further Oka Sayye's ambition, or help establish the supremacy of the Japanese in California." "Um-hm," said Donald Whiting.
He was looking far past Linda and now his eyes were narrowed in thought.
"I believe you're RIGHT about it." "I've thought of you so often since I tried to spur you to beat Oka Sayye," said Linda.