Why, those fellows would have killed you." "Probably." "Why didn't you take along a policeman or somebody ?" "And miss all the fun?
Miss my pay for the trip?
I agreed to take my commission in thrills." The jeweler was frankly curious.

"Weren't you frightened ?" "Frightened?
No." Gray shook his head.

"I've never been really afraid of anything or anybody, so far as I recall.

I've never been able to understand the necessity of being frightened.

I dare say the capacity for enjoying that particular emotion was omitted from my make-up--the result of some peculiar prenatal influence, probably.