I might say that Hamvert actually paid down the advance--and it was perhaps unfortunate for you that you paid such scrupulous attention to details as to cut your own telephone wires! I had not, of course, an exact knowledge of the hour or minute in which you proposed to stage your little play here.

The object of my first visit a little while ago was to forestall your turning the diagram over to the Weasel.

Circumstances favoured you for the moment.

I am back again, however, for the same purpose--the map!" Mittel, in a cowed way, was huddled back in his chair.

He smiled miserably at Jimmie Dale.
"QUICK!" Jimmie Dale flung out the word in a sharp, peremptory bark.