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As Jimmy turned away to retrace his steps to the car-line he found his mind
suddenly in a whirl of jumbled emotions, for he was not so stupid as to have
failed to grasp something of the significance of the girl's words and manner.
"
Hell!" he muttered. "Look what I've done now!"
The girl hurried to her room and turned on the lights, and again she seated
herself before her mirror, and for a moment sat staring at the countenance
reflected before her. She saw lips parted to rapid breathing, lips that curved
sweetly in a happy smile, and then as she sat there looking she saw the
expression of the face before her change. The lips ceased to smile, the soft, brown
eyes went wide and staring as though in sudden horror. For a moment she sat
thus and then, throwing her body forward upon her dressing-table, she buried
her face in her arms.
"My God!" she cried through choking sobs.
Mason Compton was at his office the next morning, contrary to the pleas of his
daughter and the orders of his physician. Bince was feeling more cheerful.
Murray had assured him that there was a way out. He would not tell Bince what
the way was.
"Just leave it to me," he said. "The less you know, the better off you'll be. What
you want is to get rid of this fresh guy and have all the papers in a certain vault
destroyed. You see to it that only the papers you want destroyed are in that vault,
and I'll do the rest."
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