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"Seeing that I am not able to deal with you on a business man's basis, I

shall handle you as I would handle any other thief"

Mayo turned to leave, afraid of his own desperate desire to beat that

sneering mouth into shapelessness

At the head of the corate-bars

"If those papers are on you, I' to have them," stated the

financier "If they are not on you, you'll be glad to tell et done with you"

The captive halted between the s a little more, Mayo," stated Marston

"Step forward here where those men can't hear It's important"

Marston knocked softly on a staterooasped when she saw this ragged visitor, and in her stare there was

real horror

"I haven't been able to sift this thing to the bottoet the truth of the case," said

Marston, with the air of awith malefactors "Now,

Alue on this fine

specimen before my men use their bars"

"I heard what my father offered you You must take it"

"I have other men to consider--honest men, who have worked hard with