We can prevent it, I think." Then he turned to Curlew. "Tell Mr.
Maguire about this interview. Tell him that I spared you, because you
are not the principal. But tell him from me, that if a word is breathed
against Mrs. Rivington, I swear that I'll search for him till I find
him, and when I find him I'll kill him with as little compunction as I
would a rattlesnake." Peter turned and going to his dressing-room,
washed away the ink from his hands.
Curlew shuffled out of the room, and, black as he was, went straight to
the Labor headquarters and told his story.
"And he'll do it too, Mr. Maguire," he said. "You should have seen his
look as he said it, and as he stood over me. I feel it yet."
"Do you think he means it?" said Ray to Ogden, when they were back in
Ray's room.
"I wouldn't think so if I hadn't seen his face as he stood over that
skunk. But if ever a man looked murder he did at that moment. And quiet
old Peter of all men!"
"We must talk to him. Do tell him that--"
"Do you dare do it?"
"But you--?"
"I don't.
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