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“Estelle Holliday ran away in 1920 with her father’s second man!” he cried. “Shall I tell you where I heard of her last? She stumbled into a charity hospital, bruised from head to foot, because her drunken husband had beaten her to within an inch of her life!”

Fifi was breathing hard. Her aunts leaned forward. Doctor Gallup sprang suddenly to his feet.

“But they were playing safe compared to you!” he shouted. “They didn’t woo an ex-convict with blood on his hands.”

And now Fifi was on her feet, too, her eyes flashing fire.

“Be careful!” she cried. “Don’t go too far!”

“I can’t go too far!” He reached in his pocket, plucked out a folded evening paper and slapped it down on the table.

“Read that, Miss Fifi!” he shouted. “It’ll tell you how four man-killers entered a bank in West Crampton three weeks ago. It’ll tell you how they shot down the cashier in cold blood, and how one of them, the most brutal, the most ferocious, the most inhuman, got away. And it will tell you that that human gorilla is now supposed to be hiding in the neighborhood of Montauk Point!”