“I had been informed—authentically, I supposed—that you were dead.â€�
“Well, I heard the same thing about you; only I’m glad that it has turned out to be a mistake, for otherwise you would not have come into these millions.�
“Quite true, Michael the Red.�
“Hank Carroll would have raked in the pot, eh?�
“Oh, no, he wouldn’t. He’d have got what is coming to him now, within a short time, just the same. It happens in a room with a little door, and it is done by shifting an electric switch. The explanation may interest you, Michael, because that is what you are destined to get, too.�
“It will be long after you are dead and buried, if I do.�
“Possibly; but that, if it be true, does not alter the inevitable. Might I venture to ask what brought you here?�
“Your millions, Lynne. I want a couple of them.�
“Oh, you do, eh?�
“I do—and you’re going to give them to me.â€�