thought and action in all things save one. He often starts out we11
but he never arrives. His interest is never sustained. He drops
one thing and turns to another. The exception is his enmity, savage
and cunning, relentless and enduring.

Kitty was awake to one fact. She could not venture to dig into this
affair alone. On the other hand, she did not want one of the men
from the city room - a reporter who would see nothing but news. If
Gregor was only a prisoner publicity might be the cause of his death;
and publicity would certainly react hardily against Johnny Two-Hawks.
To whom might she turn?

Cutty! - with his great physical strength, his shrewd and alert
mentality, and his wide knowledge of peoples and tongues. There was
the man for her - Kitty Conover's godfather. She dumped the contents
of her handbag upon the stand in the hallway in her impatience to
find Cutty's card with his telephone number. It was not in the
directory. She might catch him before he went out for the evening.

A Japanese voice answered her call.

"'Souse, but he iss out."

"Where?"

"No tell me."

"How long has he been gone?"

"'Scuse!"