21/46 I only wish to have some one at hand when I am ready to face the embryo Sir Hugh Johnstone!" "You are bold!" slowly said Alan Hawke. "If I should denounce you to Johnstone, himself! If he should be warned--" "I hold him and his long cherished dream, the Baronetcy, in my hand," the brown-eyed beauty frankly cried. "I should not burn my ships in Europe! Even if I were to be betrayed, the purpose of my life will be carried out. I should leave here behind me the safest of anchors in other well-paid agents. Your rash meddling would only ruin your own money interests and not hurt my plans." "Then we are to make an offensive and defensive alliance without trust or faith in each other ?" agnostically remarked Hawke. |