Then he called in that Pelly chap and gave him something which he wrote on a piece of paper.

After that he shook hands with me, slapped me on the shoulder most intimately, and gave me another cigar.

He's a keen old blade, Kent.

He doesn't need more than one pair of eyes to see what I've done since Cardigan went away!" If ever Kent's hands had itched to get at the throat of a human being, the yearning convulsed his fingers now.

At the moment when he was about to act Mercer had betrayed him to Kedsty! He turned his face away so that Mercer could not see what was in his eyes.