fiercely and awoke.

The light was on. At the side of her bed were two men. One of
them was holding her bare shoulder and digging his fingers into it
cruelly. They looked like coal heavers.

"We do not wish to harm you, and won't if you're sensible. Where
did they take the man you brought


CHAPTER XI


Kitty did not wrench herself loose at once. She wasn't quite sure
that this was not a continuance of her nightmare. She knew that
nightmares had a way of breaking off in the middle of things, of
never arriving anywhere. The room looked natural enough and the
pain in her shoulder seemed real enough, but one never could tell.
She decided to wait for the next episode.

"Answer!" cried the spokesman of the two, twisting Kitty's shoulder.
"Where did they take him?"

Awake! Kitty wrenched her shoulder away and swept the bedclothes
up to her chin. She was thoroughly frightened, but her brain was
clear. The spark of self-preservation flew hither and about in
search of expediencies, temporizations. She must come through this
somehow with the vantage on her side. She could not possibly betray
that poor young man, for that would entail the betrayal of Cutty
also. She saw but one avenue, the telephone; and these two men