the sense in which it is used in the underworld. You were taken out to that lonely spot to be shot, and your body thrown into the woods. The mystery is, how you contrived to escape!\"
\"Why should anybody want to shoot me?\" gasped the doctor.
\"You escaped,\" she went on, \"but Dr. McComb was not so lucky!\"
\"Do you mean to say that Tito shot McComb?\" he cried.
\"I don't know. Another tool may have been used in that case. Tito was only a hired assassin,
the sense in which it is used in the underworld. You were taken out to that lonely spot to be shot, and your body thrown into the woods. The mystery is, how you contrived to escape!\"
\"Why should anybody want to shoot me?\" gasped the doctor.
\"You escaped,\" she went on, \"but Dr. McComb was not so lucky!\"
\"Do you mean to say that Tito shot McComb?\" he cried.
\"I don't know. Another tool may have been used in that case. Tito was only a hired assassin,
