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Tony Standish's face crimsoned in annoyance, and a vicious expression

flashed into his pale blue eyes

"How much do you want?" he snapped

Don Carlos did not answer He rose fro: "Ten thousand pesetas--sixty pounds!"

Tony cursed under his breath, then his glance fell on the auto on the table, and he snatched it up and levelled it at his

captor

"Hands up, or I'll put a bullet through you!" he cried excitedly

"Ten thousand pesetas--sixty pounds!" sneered Don Carlos again, paying

no heed to the pistol levelled at him "So that is the value you place

on the wo to fury and scarcely realising what he was doing, Tony Standish

fired, but the shot did not seem to take effect, and before he could

fire a second ti at him and snatched the pistol frouards dashed into the roorappled

with Tony and bore hilish

to his master

"No, not now," said Don Carlos shortly, in Spanish "Take hied Standish to his feet and hustled hiasping cry broke from him, and

he collapsed in a heap on the floor