Having insured Walter Hine's life, he arranges with Garratt Skinner to murder him.

The attempt failed the first time, the slower method is then adopted by Garratt Skinner, and as a result comes the impatient telegram: 'What are you waiting for?
Hurry up!'" The case was thus so far clear.

But anxiety remained.

Was the plan abandoned altogether, now that Sylvia had stood bravely up and warned her father that she would not keep silent?
So certainly Sylvia thought.

But then she did not know all that Chayne knew.