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was a silence of several seconds.

"That man was Ganley?" foolishly repeated the operator. His eyes, as he peered back at the woman, were almost vacuous. He studied her face, perplexed and uncertain, like a traveller studying a road-map. He had expected surprises, he had prepared himself for emergencies: but this, apparently, was more than he had counted on.

The frightened-eyed woman still confronted him, her face seeming one of pity touched with fear. When she next moved, her gesture was almost that of a person wringing their hands.

"And you have promised to act with this man?" she little more than whispered.

"But he came to me as a man named Duffy, the man who's got to turn Ganley over to the authorities at Puerto Locombia."

Still again the woman's wide and pitying eyes rested on his face.