[Constance Dunlap by Arthur B. Reeve]@TWC D-Link bookConstance Dunlap CHAPTER IV 25/57
They have never been issued, so that by writing in the signatures of myself and the other officers necessary, I have been able to use it to pay off my losses in gambling." As he unfolded to her the plan which he had adopted, Constance listened in amazement. "And you know that you are watched," she repeated, changing the subject, and sensing rather than seeing that Drummond was watching them then. "Yes," he continued freely.
"The International Surety, in which I'm bonded, has a sort of secret service of its own, I understand.
It is the eye that is never closed, but is screened from the man under bond. When you go into the Broadway night life too often, for instance," he pursued, waving his hand about at the gay tables, "run around in fast motors with faster company--well, they know it.
Who is watching, I do not know.
But with me it will be as it has been when others came to the end.
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