apartment to yourself."

"You speak English very well."

"Enough! Do you want us to bundle you up in the bedclothes and
carry you off? It will not be a pleasant experience for a pretty
young woman like yourself. Something happened to the man you knew
as Gregory. Will that make you understand?"

"You know what abduction means?"

"Your police will not catch us."

"But I might give you the wrong address."

"Try it and see what happens. Young lady, this is a bad affair
for a woman to be mixed up in. Be sensible. We are in a hurry."

"Well, you seem to have acquired at least one American habit!" said
a gruff voice from the bedroom doorway. "Raise your hands quickly,
and don't turn," went on the gruff voice. "If I shoot it will be
to kill. It is a rough game, as you say. That's it; and keep them
up. Now, then, young lady, slip on your kimono. Get up and search
these men. I'm in a hurry, too."

Kitty obeyed, very lovely in her dishevelment. Repugnant as the
task was she disarmed the two men and flung their weapons on the bed.

"Now something to tie their hands; anything that will hold."