But it may serve as a stopgap, till you get a chance to look around you." "If nothing better turns up," suggested Brice, with a weak effort at lightness, "you might hire me as a bodyguard." "As a--a what ?" snapped Milo, in sharp suspicion, the geniality wiped from face and voice with ludicrous suddenness.
"A-- ?" "As a bodyguard," repeated Gavin, not seeming to note the change in his host.

"If you're in the habit of being set upon, often, as you were, this evening you'll be better off with a good husky chap to act as-" "Oh, that ?" scoffed Milo, in ponderous contempt.

"That was just some panhandler, who thought he might knock me over, from behind, and get my watch and wallet.

The same thing isn't likely to happen again in a century.

Florida is the most law-abiding State in the Union.