Let him poison some one else.

I shouldn't be an attractive figure if I were posed as one of Meldon's victims." "Perhaps," said Miss King, "I might work out the plot in such a way that you'd get the better of him in the end." "I fully intend to.

I shall see him to-morrow, and if the thing is possible at all, I shall make him thoroughly ashamed of himself." "Then I'll wait till after to-morrow," said Miss King, "before I decide on my plot.

It will be much easier for me if I get the whole thing ready-made." Sir Gilbert Hawkesby finished his cigar and went to bed.

He was tolerably well satisfied with himself.