Reproduction of the original: The Safety Curtain and Other Stories by Ethel M. Dell

"And you really think you'll catch him?" she questioned, a note of honest regret in her voice. "Don't you want him to be caught?" He pitched his cigarette overboard and turned to her with less of churlishness in his bearing. She met his eyes quite frankly. "I should just love him to get away," she declared, with kindling eyes. "Oh, I know he's a regular sharper, and he's swindled heaps of people—I'm one of them, so I know a little about it. He swindled me out of five hundred dollars, and I can tell you I was mad at first. But now that he is flying from justice, I'm game enough to want him to get away. I suppose my sympathies generally lie with the hare, Mr. West. I'm sorry if it annoys you, but I was created that way." West was frowning, but he smiled with some cynicism over her last remarks. "Besides," she continued, "I couldn't help admiring him. He has a regular genius for swindling—that man. You'll agree with me there?" "The Swindler and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories by author Ethel M. Dell.

This is a collection of short stories penned by Ethel M. Dell. More than a dozen titles are featured on this book's pages, including 'Bars of Iron', 'Rosa Mundi', 'The Tidal Wave', and 'Greenheart'.

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The Odds by Ethel M. Dell is about Dot Burton, who does needlework at Jack's farm as he goes off to work. Inspector Hill comes to the house for a visit bringing news about the cruel and notorious Buckskin Bill. Excerpt: "If he comes my way, I'll shoot him!" said Dot Burton, her blue eyes gleaming in her boyish, tanned face. "I'm not such a bad shot, am I, Jack?" "Not so bad," said Jack, kindly. "But don't shoot at sight, or p'r'aps you'll shoot a policeman—which might be awkward for us both!" "As if I should be such an idiot as that!" protested Dot. "I wasn't born yesterday, anyhow." "No?" said Jack. "Somehow you look as if you were." "Don't you be a donkey, Jack!" said his young sister, with an impudent snap of the fingers under his nose. "Being ten years older than I am doesn't qualify you for that superior pose. You're only a man, you know, after all."