"Why not await Mr.
Ferris' arrival?
I may be able to reach Mr.Worthington's second thoughts through him." The agent of the two far off conspirators lost his self-control at last.
"I'll await nothing," roared Robert Wade.

"That will do, sir!" And as the defiant Clayton retired, the manager rang for a telegraph boy.
"I have given them checkmate," mused Clayton, as he snapped his door behind him.

"Their plans probably included making away with me, out West, after Ferris has done his work and returns to openly claim Alice's hand.

It is a fight for my life now.

I must reach Irma at once.