“Well, make your conditions where you are, then. I’ll agree to ’em.�

“I won’t do it. Shoot, if you want to; but I won’t do that.�

“Do what?�

“Make any verbal conditions with you. You’d agree to anything, and break your agreement the next hour. I know you.�

“Well, what do you want?�

“Before I make any promises, such as you demand, I’m going to draw up a paper which you have got to sign with your full name.�

“Oh; I have, eh? Well, maybe I won’t do that, Lynne.�

“Then you won’t get any promise out of me; that’s flat; not with twenty automatics in your hands.�

Saying this, Lynne kicked off the slippers, and made as if to return to the bedcoverings.

“Hold on there,� Mike exclaimed. “What kind of a paper do you want to write?�