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are curious about me," he observed.

"I am," admitted Pete, playing up to him. "Very."

"I puzzle you," Bane added, with greater self-satisfaction.

"I don't make you out at all," confessed Pete, readily.

Bane referred to me and I played Pete's effective string.

"You're absolutely new to me," I said.

Bane firmly closed the door behind him. "It is because you never met before a man completely sane."

"That's it?" inquired Pete, as though speculating on it.

"That's it. It may prove that it was worth while to give you a chance to see it."

Evidently this was an allusion to Selby and Kent who had not been endowed with our opportunity. I did not concede that ours had come completely as a gratuitous act on the