When he had told her of the talk in the restaurant
she sat with the checkbook lying before her and with the puzzled look
still in her eyes.
Without giving her time for comment, Sam plunged into the midst of what
had been in his mind to say to her.
"The woman will not bother the colonel any more," he declared; "if that
paper won't hold her something else will. She respects me and she is
afraid of me. We had a talk after she had signed the paper and she gave me
the ten thousand dollars to invest for her. I promised to double it for
her within a year and I want to make good. I want you to double it now.
Make the check for twenty thousand."
Sue Rainey wrote the check, making it payable to bearer, and pushed it
across the table.
"I cannot say that I understand yet," she confessed. "Did you also fall in
love with her?"
Sam grinned. He was wondering whether he would be able to get into words
just what he wanted to tell her of the actress soldier of fortune. He
looked across the table at her frank grey eyes and then on an impulse
decided that he would tell it straight out as though she had been a man.
"It's like this," he said. "I like ability and good brains and that woman
has them.
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