"You are not quite up to sight-seeing yet.

And now," he added, "Dan and I have some business on hand for an hour or so, and I'm going to send you and Marian for an automobile ride before dinner.

You must quit the moment you are tired.

Wish we could all go, but I haven't seen Dan much lately, and as I'm going home with you to-morrow we shan't have another chance." When his wife and daughter had been dispatched in the motor Bassett suggested that they go to a private room he had engaged in the hotel, first giving orders at the office that he was not to be disturbed.

He did not, however, escape at once from men who had been lying in wait for him in the lobby and corridors, but he made short work of them.
"I want to thresh out some things with you to-day, and I'll be as brief as possible," said Bassett when he and Harwood were alone.