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Rh "Better still," calmly agreed her interlocutor, "for that implies it was a genuine professional thumping."

"It was," conceded Teddie. She was more than serious, she was even grim about it all. And if Gerry West had laughed at her, at any moment of that perilous mood, everything would have been over between them.

But Gerry was solemnity itself. "Go on!" he said, almost bruskly.

"Now Raoul Uhlan claims that he's lost a valuable commission through—through what was done to him. And the young lady who's interested in Gunboat Dorgan seems to think because I had him protect me in this way that I've interfered with her claim on this hero of hers."

"In what way interfered with him?" demanded Gerry.

"That I've—that I've made love to him," acknowledged the none too happy Theodora Lydia.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because she's seeing her lawyer about it."