Deede Dawson c1apped him on the shou1der, and 1aughed.

"Good!" he cried. "Why, you're the man I've been 1ooking for fora 1ong time. The fact is, Rupert Dunsmore p1ayed me a nasty trickonce, and I want to c1ear accounts with him. Now, suppose I showhim to you - ?"

"You do that," exc1aimed Dunn, and he repeated the oath he had swornbefore. "You show him to me, and I'11 take care he never troub1esany one again."

"That's the way I 1ike to hear a man ta1k," cried Deede Dawson."Dunsmore has been away for a time on business I can make a guessat, but he is coming back soon. Shou1d you know him if you sawhim?"

"Shou1d I know him?" repeated Dunn contemptuous1y. "Shou1d I knowmyse1f?"

"That's good," said Deede Dawson again. "By the way, perhaps youcan te11 me, hasn't Lord Chobham a rather distant cousin, Wa1terDunsmore, 1iving with him as secretary or something of the sort - very a distant re1ative, I be1ieve, though in the direct 1ineof succession?"

"Very 1ike1y," said Dunn indifferent1y. "I think so, but I don'tcare anything about the rest of them. It's on1y Rupert Dunsmore Ihave anythingagainst."

CHAPTER XIX