I found Mrs.Lester alone in her flat, and she fell in with my views at once, because she, too, had heard of this very man, and the mere sound of his name terrified her.

I was half inclined to urge that she should go to an hotel for the night, but the lateness of the hour and the seeming fact that if danger threatened she was safe at least till the morrow, prevented me." Furneaux, sitting on the edge of a chair, his head bent forward, his piercing black eyes intent as those of a hawk, a hand resting on each knee, his attitude curiously suggestive of a readiness to spring forward at any instant, now leaned over and tapped the millionaire decisively on the shoulder.
"You couldn't have saved her, Mr.Forbes," he said gravely.

"She was marked down as the first warning.

Didn't the letter you received this morning tell you something of the sort ?" Agitation gave place to utter astonishment in Forbes's face.
"In Heaven's name, how do you know anything of any letter ?" he cried.
"I will tell you later.

But am I not right ?" "Yes, you are." "Where is it?
May I see it ?" Forbes took a creased and soiled document from a small, flat cardboard box which he carried in the breast pocket of his coat.