And"-- he smiled a little anxiously--"I'll bring them here to be destroyed with the plate.

It would finish me now, as well as you, if one of them ever showed up.

Say," he said suddenly, with a catch in his breath, "I--I don't think I know what I'm doing." Mrs.Matthews reached out her hands to him.
"What can I say to you!" she said brokenly, "What--" Jimmie Dale drew back along the wall.

A little way from the door he quickened his pace, still moving, however, with extreme caution.

They were still talking behind him as he turned from the corridor into the passageway leading to the store, and from there into the store itself.
And then suddenly, in spite of caution, his foot slipped on the bare floor.