“It’s what he deserves,” snapped Kate Crandall. “He’s an infernal meddler. It will be the joy of my life to know that he is off the earth. You know what he has done for me, Dave.”
“Yes, I know, Kate, all right.”
“Give him all that’s coming to him, then.”
“It’s the only chance for any of us,” growled Duffy, scowling. “We must play the game to a finish, or throw up our hands.”
“You’ll throw up your hands, all right,” thought Patsy, with eyes and ears alert.
“As for Kate Crandall——” Mack began.
“Oh, you are not the first man, Mack, who has been brought to the bad by this unscrupulous woman,” Nick interrupted. “She will give you the worst of it, sooner or later, as she has done for others.”
“Not worse than you’ll get,” cut in Kate, with vicious asperity. “Thank Heaven, I’ve got you where I want you, at last.”
“Don’t bank too heavily on that,” Nick coolly advised.
“What do you mean by that, Carter?” Mack quickly demanded.