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Rh from the East Side with a cold and steely stare.

"I want to talk to you!" she said, with great deliberation. And she made that announcement with such an unlooked-for note of masterfulness that, unimpressed as it left the newcomer, it rather bewildered the old Commodore.

"And I guess I gotta earful or two to unload to yuh!" countered Gunboat, betraying that he was laboring under an excitement which more recent events had only temporarily eclipsed.

"I should be obliged to know just who this young bounder is," repeated the older man, in his most authoritative quarter-deck manner. But that manner was entirely lost on Gunboat Dorgan.

"Yuh just play dead, yuh old Has-Been, until I say a word or two to me lady-friend here," he proclaimed as he confronted Teddie and gave his back to an all too negligible enemy. "I came here to find out what right a law-sharp named West has got to take that car of yours away from me. I wantta know what call he's got to