, and as I intend to open it to-morrow
morning at the usual hour in place of your punctual self, it will be
most necessary for you to give me the required information."
For one moment Lester Armstrong gazed steadily into the face of the
fiend incarnate before him--a look before which the other quailed
despite his apparent bravado.
"I am in your power and at your mercy," he said, "but though you torture
me on the rack I shall never tell you what you want to know. That safe
contains valuable papers which belong to others; they are secure in my
keeping. You can kill me, but the secret of the safe combination will
die with me."
Kendale laughed a little short, hard laugh.
"You are mad to thus defy me," he cried, harshly, "when you stop to
consider that I can open it in any event. I can simply say the
combination has slipped from my mind. Who is there to question Mr.
Lester Armstrong, the head of the firm? No one--no one. It will be
broken open quite as soon as workmen can be found to accomplish it.
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