That bullet of yours might have been in my temple." "It was meant to be there," the man gasped.

"Hand over the document, you pig-headed fool! It'll cost you your life--if not to-day, to-morrow." "I'll be hanged if you get it, anyway!" Laverick answered fiercely.
"You assassin! Scoundrel! To come here and make a cold-blooded effort at murder! You shall see what you think of the inside of an English prison." The man laughed contemptuously.
"And what about the pocket-book ?" he asked.
Laverick was silent.

His assailant smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
"Come," he said, "I have made my effort and failed.

You have twenty thousand pounds.

That's a fair price, but I'll add another twenty thousand for that document unopened." "It is possible that we might deal," Laverick remarked, kicking the revolver a little further away.