"All out of the room now. I want it dark. Just as soon as the
nurse arrives I'll return. Three rings." Harrison left the
apartment.

Cutty spent a few minutes at the telephone, then he joined Kitty
in the living room.

"Kitty, what was the stranger like?"

"Like a gorilla. He spoke English as if he had a cold."

Cutty scowled into space. "Have a scar over an eyebrow?"

"Good gracious, I couldn't tell! Both his eyes were black and his
nose banged dreadfully. Johnny Two-Hawks probably did it."

"Bully for Two-Hawks! Kitty, you're a marvel. Not a flivver from
the start. And those slate-blue eyes of yours don't miss many
things."

"Listen!" she interrupted, taking hold of his sleeve. "Hear it?"

"Only the Elevated."

"Tumpitum-tump! Tumpitum-tump! Cutty, you hypnotized me this
afternoon with your horrid drums."

"The emeralds?" He managed to repress the start.