THE GUNSHOT WOUND AGAIN
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"I have not said so."
"At least, you are threatening me with arrest."
"No; I am not threatening you at all. I am merely making sure, before I say what I have come to say, that all the circumstances and possibilities of the case are perfectly plain to you."
Again, for several moments, she sat silent—neither agitated nor embarrassed and looking at him steadily.
"Baraka does not want you arrested," she observed.
"No?" he questioned with a smile.
"It must be plain to you that your arrest would prevent his carrying out his threat of personal violence upon you."
"Well?"
"To Baraka, a campaign of personal vio-
