There was another woman, of course, whose influence over your father was unbounded, and at whose instigation he committed this disgraceful act.

This woman is now at Braster." My brain was in a whirl.

I was quite incapable of speech.
"Her real name," he continued coolly, "God only knows.

For the moment she calls herself Mrs.Smith-Lessing.

She is a Franco-American, a political adventuress of the worst type, living by her wits.