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He andering about the room, his hands in his pockets, his head

bent When he stopped: "What airl, Audrey?"

"Get rid of her That's easy"

"Not so easy as it sounds"

He told her of Dunbar and the photographs, of Rudolph Klein, and the

problem as he saw it

"So there I ao, I lose one of the links

in Dunbar's chain If I keep her?"

"Can't Natalie talk to his when a ht tell her all about it"

"Possibly But I think it unlikely Natalie would tell me"

She leaned over and patted his hand impulsively

"What devils oets what

she deserves That'sshe

doesn't deserve And that's Natalie She's over-indulgent to Graha in her voice , you know," she added And laughed a little

"Does Natalie pay his debts?"

"I rather think so"

But that was a subject he could not go on with