The less you are seen the
better. You know that for yourself, and for your own sake you'll
be careful. You'll have no time to spare, but you will be able to
get to the place I told you of by four all right--no earlier, no
later. You must arrange to be there at four exactly. You may
spoil all if you are too early. Almost as soon as you get there,
Rupert Dunsmore will arrive. You must do the rest for yourself,
and then you must strike straight across country for here. You can
look up your routes on the map. There will be less risk of
attracting attention if you come and go by different ways. You
ought to be here again some time in the small hours. I'll let you
in, and you'll have cleared your own score with Rupert Dunsmore and
earned more money than you ever have had in all your life before.
Now, can I depend on you?"
"Yes--yes," answered Dunn, over whom there had come a new and
strange sense of unreality as he stood and listened to cold-blooded
murder being thus calmly, coolly planned, as though it were some
afternoon's pleasure trip that was being arranged, so that he
hardly knew whether he did, in fact, hear this smooth, low,
unceasing voice that from the darkness at his side laid down such
a bloody road for his feet to travel.
"Oh, yes, you can depend on me," he said. "But can I depend on you,
when you say Rupert Dunsmore will be there at that time and that
place?"
It was a moment or two before Deede Dawson answered, and then his
voice was very low and soft and confident as he said:
"Yes, you can--absolutely.
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