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"Yes; but why kill A to do, it's a devil of a thing to do, to parallel your own line!" insisted O'Hara "That is dirty work People don't do such things these days Nobody tears up dollar bills for the pleasure of tearing"

"Nobody knohat Quarrier will do," h to find out when the first oamated, and the first fractional declines left the street speechless and stupefied

O'Hara sat frowning, and fingering his glass "As a ic shows us that Quarrier isn't in it at all No sane man would ruin his own enterprise, when there is no need to His people are openly supporting A Inter-County; and, besides, there's Ferrall in it, and Mrs Ferrall is Quarrier's cousin; and there's Belwether in it, and Quarrier is engaged to marry Sylvia Landis, who is Belwether's niece It's a scrap with Harrington's crowd, and the wheels inside of wheels are like Chinese boxes Who knohat it amated is safe, if Quarrier wants it to be And unless he does he's crazy"

Mortiot into his eyes and infla his puffy eyelids with his handkerchief; then, squinting sideways at Plank, and seeing him still occupied with Fleetwood, turned bluntly on O'Hara: "See here: what do youhim Do you understand?"

"It is curious," mused O'Hara coolly, "how much of a cad a fairly decent man can be when he's out of te angrily

"No; I mean myself I'm not that way usually I took hioods on I've been thinking that the men who bother with such questions are usually open to suspicion themselves Watch me do the civil, now I'm ashah to do so"

"Is he up? Yes, I will;" and, turning in his chair, he said to Plank: "Awfully sorry I acted like a bounder just now, after having accepted your hospitality at the Fells I did mean to be offensive, and I'm sorry for that, too Hope you'll overlook it, and be friendly"

Plank's face took on the dark-red hue of ee remained non-committal, then directly at O'Hara