You made a hit with her all right, and she certainly don't like me.

Well, delightful as it is to meet you again, I must be going." She turned away, and then paused to add over her shoulder.

"Don't you think it would be just as safe for you to attend to your own business, Sergeant Hamlin ?" "And let you alone ?" "Exactly; and let me alone.

I am hardly the sort of woman it is safe to play with.

It will be worth your while to remember that." He waited, motionless, until assured that she had passed down the hall as far as the door of the dining-room.