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124 "Has it occurred to you," he said as he wrote, without looking up, "that this man Dorgan might have been the proper person for Uhlan to take action against?"

"I imagine he saw about all he wanted to of Dorgan," announced Teddie, with the icicle-look once more in her eyes.

"But not all he wanted to of you?" questioned Gerry, pretending to ignore her eye-flash of indignation. It was not often that he'd enjoyed the luxury of finding Teddie Hayden on the defensive, and he intended to make the most of it. "It's quite apparent he isn't afraid of you!"

"I was hoping you could make him that way," acknowledged Teddie. She said it quietly, but there was a barb in it which Gerry couldn't quite overlook.

"Well, we'll get him that way," he announced with vigor, as he rose to his feet. "If it's action they're after, they'll get all they want!"

A consciousness of clearing skies both elated and depressed the brooding-eyed Teddie. What Gerry was doing for her