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"Investing!" sneered Morti to invest, thanks toDon't worry If there's any shaking down to be done, I'll do it, my friend," and he rose, and started toward the elevators

"Wait," said Plank "Why, hten Quarrier! What did you sell your holdings for? Why didn't you co to Quarrier now, and scolding? You can't scare a rinned in his face

"Your bigothers You don't think I a to try to take care ofteeth, and the vanity in hi him "No, you think I don't know much But men like you and Quarrier will damn soon find out! I want you to understand," he went on excitedly, forgetting the instinctive caution which in saner moments he was only too certain that his present business required--"I want you to understand a few things, my friend, and one of them is that I'm not afraid of Quarrier, and another is, I'm not afraid of you!"

"Leroy--"

"No, not afraid of you, either!" repeated Morti, aint-it-a-sha tired of it; I'ue in your head after this--do you understand?--and we'll get on all right If you don't, I've the means to make you!"

"Are you crazy?"

"Not a bit of it! Too damn sane for you and Leila to hoodwink!"

"You are crazy!" repeated Plank, aghast

"Am I? You and Leila can take the matter into court, if you want to--unless I do And"--here he leaned forward, showing his teeth again--"the next time you kiss her, close the door!"

Then he went away up the rave and pale, went out into the street and entered his big touring-car But the drive up town and through the sunlit park gave hireat house with a heavy, lifeless step, head bent, as though counting every crevice in the stones under his lagging feet For the first time in all his life he was afraid of a one directly to Quarrier's office,by such a small fraction of a minute that he realised theywhile Quarrier was descending