And then we'll get to business." And Fanny produced a large envelope, from which she took out a few typewritten pages.

"Just look these over," she advised, "and then tell me whether I shall go." And as Ethel hesitated, "You'd better.

They're very important." Ethel took them and read them, and as she did so her rage and scorn changed first into bewilderment and then into a sickening fright She felt all at once so off her ground.

She had always heard of detectives and their reports of shadowed wives, but that sort of thing had just been in the papers and had never seemed very real.

"This is about me!" she thought.