There's a lot of such blackmailing going on in New York.

Next to business and political cases, I suppose, it is the private detective's most important graft.
Nearly everybody has a past--although few are willing to admit it.

The graft lies in the fact that people talk so much, are so indiscreet, take such reckless chances.

It's a wonder, really, that there isn't more of it." "Yet there is the--evidence, as he called it--my letters to Lynn--and the reports that that woman must have made of our--our conversations," groaned Anita.

"How they may distort it all!" Constance was thinking rapidly.
"It is now after four o'clock," she said finally, looking at her wrist watch.