These men, or others from the same agency, are here all the time.

There are two more at my office downtown; still others are searching customs records, examining the books of the express companies, probing into my private affairs.

And they're all in the employ of the men with whom I am dealing.

Do you understand now ?" "I didn't dream of such a thing," the girl faltered slowly.

"I knew, of course, that--Gene, I shouldn't have come if--if only I could have heard from him." "My dear girl, it's a big game we are playing--a hundred-million-dollar game! And we shall win it, unless--we _shall_ win it, in spite of them.