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Leila, white face quivering, shrank as though he had struck her, and he turned on her again, grinning: "As for you, you come home! And that'll be about all for yours"

"Are you insane, toon hily: "That's about all fro?"

He stepped heavily toward her; but Plank's sudden crushing grip was on his fat arm above the elbow, and he emitted a roar of surprise and pain

"Don't touch him! Don't, in Heaven's na hio with hilance around her, where scores of strange facesup to see better

Plank, who had dropped Mortimer's arm as the latter eain, dropping his voice as he spoke: "You go! Do you hear?" he said quietly "I'll do what you ask o now!"

"You co on his wife, who had already risen "If you don't I'llas you live! And there'll be nothing to talk over in Quarrier's office, if I do"

Leila looked at Plank, rose, and moved swiftly toward the veranda steps, her head resolutely lowered, the burning shalance at Plank, then waddled unsteadily after his wife

"Hold on," he growled; "I've a Mercedes here! I'll drive you back--wait! Here it is! Here we are!" And to Quarrier's et into the tonneau I want to show Mrs Morti to drive this machine and show you how!"

Leila scarcely heard him She obeyed the impulse of his hand on her arht ahead of her with dazed and straining eyes that saw nothing

Then Morti, opened up and seized the wheel

Unprepared, thein the uncertain light, and fell sprawling on the gravel Plank saw him from the veranda and instantly vaulted the rail to the lawn below

"You da around, "what in hell do you think you'll do?" And he clapped on full speed as Plank made a leap for the car and missed