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If Gregor was only a prisoner publicity might be the cause of his death; and publicity would certainly react hardily against Johnny Two-Hawks. To whom might she turn? Cutty! with his great physical strength, his shrewd and alert mentality, and his wide knowledge of peoples and tongues. There was the man for her Kitty Conover's godfather.
Cutty, the most honest man alive, had set his foot upon an unethical bypath and now found himself among nettles. To keep Johnny Two-Hawks prisoner in that lofty apartment while he hunted for the drums of jeopardy! Hadn't he said he had seen emeralds he would steal with half a chance? Cutty, playing at this sort of game, his conscience biting whichever way he turned!
You can talk freely before them." "Am I to see the patient?" "Harrison says not. About Wednesday your Two-Hawks will be sitting up. I've determined to keep the poor devil here until he can take care of himself. But he is flat broke." "He said he had money." "Well, Karlov's men stripped him clean." "Have you any idea who he is?" "To be honest, that's one of the reasons why I want to keep him here.
She left her retreat and walked boldly down the street, her eyes alert for the least suspicious sign. If she could make the entrance before they suspected the trick, she could obtain help before Johnny Two-Hawks made the south turn. She reached her objective, pushed through the revolving doors, and turned. Dimly she could see the taxi driver; but he appeared to be dozing on the seat.
Terror that for all the promise of immunity they might lay hands on her. Terror for Johnny Two-Hawks, for Cutty. "Has he injured you?" she asked, to gain time. "He is an error in chronology. He represents an idea which no longer exists." He spoke English fluently, but with a rumbling accent. "But to kill him for that!" "Kill him?
However, there is an understanding that if the loan isn't covered in eighteen months the instrument becomes salable for my own protection. There is a year still to run." Four o'clock found Cutty pacing his study, the room blue with smoke. Of all the queer chaps he had met in his varied career this Two-Hawks topped the lot.
Amazing thought you might jog along all your life at the side of a person and never know him half so well as someone you met m a tense episode, like that of the immaculate Cutty crossing the fire escape with Two-Hawks on his shoulders! She heard the friendly coal heaver going down the corridor to the door. When he returned to the bedroom two men accompanied him. Not a word was said.
The knowledge that their victim was in a near-by hospital would naturally serve to relax the enemy vigilance temporarily; and this would permit safely and secretly the second leg of the journey that to his own apartment. He decided to let an hour go past; then Two-Hawks was taken through the building to the rear and transferred to the truck.
Somewhere that day he had fought for his life. John Two-Hawks. And there was the mysterious evanishment of old Gregory, whose name was Stefani Gregor. In a humdrum, prosaic old apartment like this! Kitty had ideas about adventure an inheritance, though she was not aware of that. There had to be certain ingredients, principally mystery. Anything sordid must not be permitted to edge in.
Karlov always supposing that gorilla was Karlov had come in from the west. So had the young man. Gregor's inclinations had been toward the aristocracy; at least, that had been the impression. A Bolshevik would not seek haven with a man like Gregor, as this young man had. But Two-Hawks bothered him; the name bothered him, because it had no sense either in English or in Russian.
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