If you should change your mind--you can reach me at his office.

Call under an assumed name--Mrs.Green, perhaps." He was gone, with a mocking smile at the parting shot.
Anita Douglas saw it all now.

Things had not been going fast enough to suit her new friend, Mrs.Murray.So, after a time, she had begun to tell of her own escapades and to try to get Anita to admit that she had had similar adventures.

It was a favorite device of detectives, working under the new psychological method by use of the law of suggestion.
She had introduced herself, had found out about Lynn Munro, and in some way, after he had left town, had got the letters.

Was he in the plot, too?
She could not believe it.
Suddenly the thought came to her that the blackmailers might give her husband material that would look very black if a suit for divorce came up in court.
What if he were able to cut off her little allowance?
She trembled at the thought of being thus cast adrift on the world.
Anita Douglas did not know which way to turn.