For she was not operating." Annie Grayson moved as if to face out her accusers at this sudden turn of fortune.
"One moment, Annie," cut in Constance.
"And yet, you are the real shoplifter, after all.

You fell into the trap which Drummond laid for you.

I take pleasure, Mr.Drummond, in presenting you with better evidence than even your own stool pigeon could possibly have given you under the circumstances." She paused.
"For myself," she concluded, "I claim Kitty Carr.

I claim the right to take her, to have her treated for her--her disease.

I claim it because the real shoplifter, the queen of the shoplifters, Annie Grayson, has worked out a brand-new scheme, taking up a true kleptomaniac and using her insanity to carry out the stealings which she suggested--and safely, to this point, has profited by!".