Under His Thumb — page 114: what you’re looking at

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UNDER HIS THUMB. 105 had no thought of beating a retreat without an in- vestigation. He seized the upraised arm, wrenched the weapon from the dwarf’s grasp, and then whirled the di-— minutive fellow back from the door. “Just tell me everything I ask of you, and we won’t have any serious trouble,’’? declared Croly, holding his adversary so firmly that the latter could scarce make a show of resistance. ‘“Let me go,”’ cried the dwarf. “In due time. But tell me your namé first.’’ “T am called Spider.” “A queer name.”’ “Vm a queer chap, I expect.’’ ‘‘It was you who wrote on the slip of paper that I picked up on the street a few moments ago?”’ NOSE” “Why did you do it?’ ‘To see what you would do.”’ “You have found out, haven’t you?”’ ‘*T didn’t mean to be caught.”’ ‘“What did you mean by saying ‘you spun a web 99 99 to catch fly cops in! “It was a joke.” “You had an object in it, and you must tell me what it was.’”’ “T did it for fun, I say. I wanted to see how you would act.”’ “That was not your only object.”’ ~ “Yes, it was.’ “You knew I was a detective?”’ “Ves. 93 ‘And you were watching me?”’ ‘Perhaps I was.”’ (E(6) mn CeCopayicel exexoy <S