Adventuress Mary had hurried back to see that all was right. This
time Mary was genuinely scared at the forbidding figure of which
she had heard.
"It is all right," pacified Long. "Henceforth we work with the
honorable Clutching Hand."
Clutching Hand continued to emphasize his demands on them,
punctuating his sentences by flourishes of the gun as he gave them
the signs and passwords which would enable them to work with his
own emissaries.
It was a strange initiation.
At home at last, Elaine sank down into a deep library chair and
stared straight ahead. She saw visions of arrest and trial, of the
terrible electric chair with herself in it, bound, and of the
giving of the fatal signal for turning on the current.
Were such things as these going to happen to her, without
Kennedy's help? Why had they quarreled? She buried her face in her
hands and wept.
Then she could stand it no longer. She had not taken off her
street clothes. She rose and almost fled from the house.
Kennedy and I were still in the laboratory when a knock sounded at
the door. I went to the door and opened it. There stood Elaine
Dodge.
It was a complete surprise to Craig. There was silence between
them for a moment and they merely looked at each other. Elaine was
pale and woebegone.
At last Kennedy took a quick step toward her and led her to a
chair.
Pages:
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266