rrow had been accomplished when Myra returned to lunch, for he met her in his usual mood of cheerful complacency. a

at I've done much yet, nor what

now, and show it to him this afternoon, when I am not about, as containing the articles which you must conceal? I will provide you with opportunity to do that. . . . But do not give

drugs? Was it not, apart from that contrary to the basic rule of his own conduct, the wisdom of which he had so often impressed upon her lazily receptive mind? And at a time when suspicion of complicity in such trafficking had approached him more nearly

be a sign of rising anger not to be lightly provoked: "If I've told you ever so many times, there should b

ral code as she did, could think him incapable of a lying assurance, she must ha

have seemed as foolish as to walk through a pool of water when a side-step! would find drier ground. But because yo

it, against which even friendship is not secure. With such, even the abject defensive value of it may be largely lost, for what is the power of

lips, they do not give it light or promiscuous exercise, nor use it so that it must destroy confidence in themselves where

viate from the rule that neither she nor he should have any part in the smuggling of the illicit drugs from which his fortune was made, and asked her to believe this, even while the parcel was in the room, and they were plotting together to procur

They're not sense. But I'll show him the parcel, if that's all you wa

as that - - ! And I've told you he's only to see that you've got it ready, and

to tomorrow. An

o smuggling your parcel through, do you suppose that he'll

like doing it.

ike at times. And if you do just what I've told you - as I'm quite

en four o'clock and William Kindell came, Myra did her a

sposed herself with some exhibition of shapely limbs. She said, "I don't want to bother you with it now, but I thought you'd

n another mood than that which she wished to rouse "if you'd let me dec

startled note in her voice, "I couldn't possibly let

hey were words which politeness might not approve. But the suggestion was one for which she had been unpr

should, but only asked whether it would be a large sum; but he responded easily, "Wel

that both of