Quickly, please!" "I was in the drawing-room talking to Mr.Littleson," Virginia said, "when I heard the small alarm bell that I had had fitted on to the library door ring.

I came in and found Stella here.

She locked me in.
She is very strong.

I had no idea that she was so strong," Virginia murmured, half closing her eyes and fainting away.
He hurried to her side, and forced some more brandy between her lips.
Then he laid her flat on the floor, and began to walk up and down.
"So this is Stella's work," he muttered to himself.

"That accounts for the message I had yesterday, that she was seen driving with Littleson.
What she did for that blackguard Vine, she has done for them!" His face, no longer an amiable one, grew sterner as he walked backwards and forwards, his hands behind him, his eyes fixed upon the carpet.