"I don't think he would have missed if you hadn't done it, and I will not forget," he said.

"This thing will always count for a good deal between you and me." He went away, and Alice Deringham glanced at her father with a flush in her face.

"I did not understand before.

The man had a pistol and you took it from him ?" "No," said Deringham, with a curious little laugh.

"I meant to knock his arm up, and am not sure that I did it.