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"Confound you, you ruffian! How dare you talk tohis position, and taking an iuards, one of whoainst his breast Tony flinched, then he

shrugged his shoulders and faced the hooded figure disdainfully

"Easy to take the high hand and to fling insults at a man when you have

a lot of armed ruffians to protect you!" he said sarcastically

"What's the idea, anyhow? Why not get down to business instead of

spouting a lot of balderdash?"

"I can dispense with the protection of the guards," Don Carlos

remarked "Garcilaso and Riafio, you ithdraw and leave me to

deal with the señor Wait outside," he added in Spanish

He resuuards left the roo like black diah the slits in his mask

"Well, how much will you take to set Miss Rostrevor at liberty?"

inquired Tony impatiently, after a pause "I aht here blind-folded, and all that sort of

thing, by another fellow dressed like you The whole thing seeue with the authorities,

else how could you have a place like this--electric light and all the

rest of it--without being spotted?"