Chapter 27
FELLOW-CRIMINALS "Stand precisely as you are, Douglas Guest. If you turn your head, or take a single step towards me, you are a dead man." Douglas was not a coward, and the sound of a human voice dispelled in a moment the vague fears which had caused his heart to leap. He remained immovable. "Under those circumstances," he answered steadily, "I can assure you that I have not the slightest intention of moving. Who are you, and what do you want with me?" A hard little laugh. Again the click of a revolver. "I want from you several things. First of all, and most important, the address of the writer of that letter which you have just been reading." "That's precisely," Douglas said, "what I should like to know myself. The lady does not give it." "You are very near death, Douglas Guest. He
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