For the first time the pale eyes of Jachin Fell looked slightly troubled.
"You'll hang if you do," he said, gently.
"I'll be damned if I don't!" snapped Gramont, and put the weapon in his lap.
CHAPTER XVI
The Impregnability of Mr. Fell
JACHIN FELL glanced at his watch.
"Lucie will be here at any minute now," he observed. "I suppose your sense of duty will force you to disclose everything to her?"
Gramont merely nodded, tight-lipped. A knock at the door, and one of his men entered with the sack of mail they had taken as evidence.