You have told me some very surprising things.

I perceive that you are a more interesting visitor even than I had thought." He raised his left hand, and Meekins, who seemed to have been waiting for some signal of the sort, suddenly, with a movement of his knee and right arm, flung Dunster hack upon the bed.

The man opened his mouth to shout, but already, with lightning-like dexterity, his assailant had inserted a gag between his teeth.

Treating his struggles as the struggles of a baby, Meekins next proceeded to secure his wrists with handcuffs.

He then held his feet together while he quietly wound a coil of cord around them.