So you'll need that gun." "What's this I've fallen into the middle of ?" exclaimed Hunt.

"A Kentucky feud ?" "It's very easy to understand when you know the code," Larry explained grimly.

"Down here when an outfit thinks one of its members has squealed on them, it's their duty to be always on the watch for their chance to finish him off.

I'm to be finished off--that's all." "Say, young fellow, the life of a straight crook doesn't seem to be getting much simpler! Why, man, you hardly dare to stir from the house! What are you going to do ?" "Going to go around my business, always with the pleasant anticipation of a bullet in my back when some fellow thinks it safe for him to shoot." The three of them discussed this latest development over their dinner, which they had together up in Hunt's studio.

But despite all their talk of his danger, a very real and near danger, Larry's mind was more upon Maggie who had thus suddenly been wrenched out of his life.