Chapter 31

"You've got a wrong idea about us, but we bear no malice," he said when the drinks came. "The way you were going on I thought you might be that Ringer guy!" he chuckled amiably. "Listen--if The Ringer worked in the State of New York he'd have been framed years ago. He tried to put a bluff on me once, but I called him. That's a fact--am I right, Grab?" Grab nodded. "Surely," he said. The report of this conversation was the only evidence Bliss had that there was any old grudge between The Ringer and the Circus. Very …