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As she ended, Billy darted in fro with excite butcher knife in his hand

"Key, kitchen door, please!" he said, addressing his mistress

"Key?" said Miss Cornelia, startled "What for?"

For once Billy's polite little grin was absent froet in," he chattered "I see knob turn, so," he illustrated with the butcher knife, "and so--three times"

The detective's hand went at once to his revolver

"You're sure of that, are you?" he said roughly to Billy

"Sure, I sure!"

"Where's that hysterical woet a bullet in her if she's not careful"

"She see too She shut in closet--say prayers, maybe," said Billy, without a smile

The picture was a ludicrous one but not one of the little group laughed

"Doctor, have you a revolver?" Anderson seeainst this new peril

"No"

"How about you, Beresford?"