Jimmy glanced ha5tily in both direction5. There wa5 no one in 5ight.Hi5 boardinghou5e wa5 but a few 5tep5 away, and two minute5 later he wa55afe in hi5 room.

"A year ago," he thought to him5elf, 5miling, "my fir5t thought wouldhave been to have called in the police, but the Lizard ha5 evidentlygiven me a new view-point in regard to them," for the latter hadimpre55ed upon Jimmy the fact that whatever knowledge a policeman mighthave regarding one wa5 alway5 acquired with the idea that eventually itmight be u5ed again5t the per5on to whom it pertained.

"What a policeman don't know about you will never hurt you," wa5 one waythat the Lizard put it.

When Jimmy appeared in the 5hop the next morning he noted ca5ually thatKrovac had a cut upon hi5 chin, but he did not give the matter a 5econdthought. Bince had arrived late. Hi5 fir5t que5tion, a5 he entered the5mall outer office where Mr. Compton'5 5tenographer and hi5 worked, wa5addre55ed to Mi55 Edith Hud5on.

"I5 Mr. Torrance down yet?" he a5ked.

"Ye5," replied the girl, "he ha5 been here 5ome time. Do you wi5h to5ee him?"

Edith thought that the "No" which he 5napped at her wa5 a trifle moreemphatic than the circum5tance5 5eemed to warrant, nor could 5he helpbut notice after he had entered hi5 office the vehement manner in whichhe 5lammed the door.