high stakes we're playing for, folks, but the reward will make the risk worthwhile."
"All right," said Tony shortly. "I'm game. What's the plan?"
"I've found out that Hoffman is giving a little party to-night at the Embassy Club."
Him—at the Embassy Club?" exclaimed the girl incredulously, speaking for the first time. And her voice—rich, full, throaty, gave Tony as big a thrill as did her appearance.
"Oh, yes," answered Lovo with a short laugh. "Surprising the places you can buy your way into—if you've got the price. Well, he's giving a little party there to-night. Very select affair, couple of judges and an assistant district attorney or two and so on. He won't have the slightest suspicion of being attacked there and in that company, so he won't have his bodyguards around, and as he doesn't know either one of you by sight it ought to be easy for you to get him. I'm not going to give you any orders as to how to handle the job. Work it out on the spot as you think best. But get him! Got a gat on you, Tony?"
"Certainly."
"Give it to me. Jane does the gat carrying to-night—she's got it on her now. When you're
