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"Why, Mr Sa you back a week ago So you got back safe?"

"Safe? Why, of course," Peters shook his head

"I confess that, when there was this delay in your coht have happened to you I recalllady who recently did me the honour to promise to become my wife"

"Ocean liners aren't often wrecked nowadays"

"I was thinking erous country But perhaps you were not in touch with the underworld?"

"I don't think I was"

"Ah!" said Jno Peters, significantly

He took up the revolver, gave it a fond and almost paternal look, and replaced it on the desk

"What on earth are you doing with that thing?" asked Sa to America myself in a few days' tiuvnor's sending me over with papers in connection with The People v Schultz and Bowen It's a big case over there A client of ours is entleal representative in New York So I thought it best to be prepared"

The first smile that he had permitted himself in nearly teeks flitted across Sam's face

"What on earth sort of place do you think New York is?" he asked "It's safer than London"

"Ah, but what about the underworld? I've seen these American filht regular I takelady to a cine Did you ever see 'Wolves of the Bowery'? There was aimportant papers, and what they didn't try to do to hi no chances, Mr Sa about with you"

Mr Peters seemed wounded

"Oh, I understand thea very fair shot I take o and practice at the Rupert Street Rifle Range during my lunch hour You'd be surprised how quickly one picks it up When I get hoht I try how quick I can draw You have to draw like a flash of lightning, Mr Samuel If you'd ever seen a film called 'Two-Gun-Tho about"