“If you desire to valet me,” said the lawyer, “I have no objection.”
Angel made no reply, but placed the hat carefully on the mosaic floor of the hall.
“If,” said the lawyer, “before I open the safe, there is any question you would like to ask, or any legitimate objection you would wish to raise, I shall be happy to consider it.”
“I have nothing to say,” said Angel.
“Or you?” addressing Jimmy.
“Nothing,” was the laconic answer.
“Or Miss Kent perhaps——?”
Kathleen looked him straight in the face as she answered coldly—
“I am prepared to abide by the action of my friends.”
“There is nothing left for me to do,” said the lawyer after the slightest pause, “but to carry out Mr. Connor’s instructions.”