The door of the inner office was pulled back and Strauss himself walked into the room.
We went into a saloon, and I set up a bottle of champagne.
"You're all right," Carmichael said to me when we had drunk to my good luck. "You couldn't have run that place much longer. The big ones would have eaten you up, hide and all."
"I knew that!" I said calmly.
Carmichael looked at me with considerable respect, and that was one of the pleasantest moments of my life.
CHAPTER X
LOVE