He paused a moment, regarding me quizzically. "I think you'll find
it sufficiently novel to warrant your coming, Tom," he added. "I
have already invited Dillon and his man, Herman, over the
telephone just before you came in. McBirney will be there, and
Forbes, of course. He'll have to come, if I want him. By the way,
I wish you'd get in touch with Warrington and see how he is. If it
is all right, tell him that I'd like to have him escort Miss
Winslow and her aunt here, to-night. Meanwhile I shall find out
how our friend the Boss is getting on. He ought to be here, at any
cost, and I've put it off until to-night to make sure that he'll
be in fit condition to come. To-night at nine--here in this
office--remember," he concluded gayly. "In the meantime, not a
word to anybody about what you have seen here this afternoon."
CHAPTER XXV
THE SCIENTIFIC GUNMAN
Our little audience arrived one by one, and, as master of
ceremonies, it fell to me to greet them and place them as much at
ease as the natural tension of the occasion would permit.
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