"Let me alone!" "You'll ruin everything," he pleaded earnestly.

"Don't you know that they get every number I call?
Don't you know that within fifteen minutes they will have that number, and their men will start for there ?" She faced him with blazing eyes.
"I don't care," she said deliberately, and the white face was relieved by an angry flush.

"I will know what has happened out there! I must! Gene, don't you see that I'm frantic with anxiety?
The money means nothing to me.

I want to know if he is safe." His hand was still gripped over the transmitter.

Suddenly she turned and tugged at it fiercely.