"Hello!" he exclaimed, "what are you two doing here?"
"They are waiting for you to bump them off," replied Sadie with a sneer.
"Why, what do you mean?" Perkins gazed breathlessly around the room.
"Just what I said. You are going to stop their mouths for good--and do it right now. We've been shilly-shallying over this business long enough!"
Perkins' glance took in the others seated at the table.
"Has she gone nuts?" he asked.
"We have decided that you are to do what my daughter has just mentioned," said the Doctor smoothly.
"And I," retorted Perkins angrily, "tell you here and now that I will be no party to murder!"
Sadie drew her revolver.
"Well--if he won't, I will!" she began when her wrist was caught in a grip of steel, then twisted up and backward.