Illustrations

• “I do not know him,” Axton’s eyes glanced furtively about. “I have never seen him before. This is not Lawler.”
• “Dress!” he enunciated clearly. “Skirt!” Miss Lawrie answered feebly
• “Oh, try it, Mr. Trant!” she cried. “Try—try anything”
• After glancing at her hand to see that it was held in position, he set out a third lot
• “What do you want to see that machine for? You shall not see it, if I can help it!”
• Welter’s face did not alter; the watchers stared with astonishment
• “Oh, speak not—speak not again!” he shrieked. “I will tell all. I lied”
• “What’s all this tomfoolery with steins got to do with who shot Neal Sheppard?” Chapin blurted out contemptuously
• The Chinaman saw it and knew that it was betraying him, but it leaped and leaped again