A magazine lay open in her lap but her eyes looked red and strained, as if she might have been weeping.
"What's the matter, dear?" he asked after he had kissed her. "Unhappy already?"
She shook her head.
"I've been thinking. And I guess it kinda got me upset. You know, Tony, you ought to watch yourself more. Now that you're in Johnny Lovo's shoes, all these other mobs are going to try to bump you off. You ought to have bodyguards with you all the time."
"Yeah, I guess you're right, kid. I'll see about that to-morrow."
"And I think we ought to be better armed here."
"All right. I'll bring up a machine gun to-morrow night if you say so. Nobody knows we're here and if they did, they've got sense enough not to try to pull off anything in a place like this."
“You can't tell, Tony. All the mobs are getting too ambitious and from now it's going to be for blood.”
"What's the matter; losin' your nerve?"
Not by a damned sight!" flared Jane, her eyes snapping. "You know damn well I'm not yellow; I've proved it more than once. But I think it's
