You must promise that you won't show the picture to a living soul till I give the word." "Well, for gracious sake! How is the photographer going to develop and print it without seeing it ?" "I mean--you know what I mean.

Come on, we'll swing over this way.

I've got it cached in a secret hangar, over in that ledge.

I've got to haul the gas over there, anyway, and you may go along if you like." With a surprising docility Mary V accepted the somewhat patronizing invitation.

Perhaps she really appreciated the fact that Johnny was proving how much confidence he had in her.