Timmins can run the pharmacy, and the brewery will put an agent in here if I say that I need a few months' rest abroad." "But there's Irma to be got rid of! If she does not help me to this one crowning stroke of luck, then I've either got to put her out of the way or take her with me.

She knows my one dangerous secret." A busy devil in his heart whispered an excellent suggestion.

He grinned in self-satisfied malignity.

"Yes! That's the trick! If I win we'll take a Hoboken steamer together.

Any one of our smuggling stewards and agents over there will take care of us on the way over.
"If I lose, she must go with me; and there are a few lonely lakes in Norway, a few deep fiords with leaping waterfalls.