“You can handle the matter?” he lingered to inquire anxiously.

“You bet I can handle it!”

“What will you do?”

“You leave that to me, I say.”

“You have no time to waste, Vic.”

“Is time not wasted in talk of this kind?” Vic impatiently rejoined. “Go at once, I repeat, and leave the rest to me.”

Hyde started for the door, only to have the woman again dart across his path and clasp him by the arm.

“Stop a moment!” she cried, under her breath.

“Well?”