There is only one thing of which I am more certain at the moment." "And that is ?" "That if it were not for your quickness of eye and hand--and foot, for that matter--I would now be laid out in a mortuary or on an hospital table.

I appreciate those qualities when exercised on a person like Martiny, whose main argument is centered in an automatic pistol, but they would be singularly out of place if tested on Otto Schmidt, when backed by the laws of the United States, which, strange as it may seem, I also represent." "If you put it that way, Steingall----" "I do, most emphatically.

Let me be more precise.

Promise me now that you will not stir out of the Plaza Hotel until I come to you." "Is that really essential ?" "I would not ask you if it were not." "What time may I expect you ?" "Let me see.

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