Now what do you choose ?" For the first time Lacy's eyes wavered, their defiance gone, as he glanced aside at Enright, who had collapsed in his chair, a mere heavily breathing, shapeless thing.

The sight of the coward seemed to stiffen him to a species of resistance.
"If I answer--what then ?" he growled desperately.
"What is offered me ?" Westcott moistened his lips.

He had not before faced the situation from this standpoint, yet, with only one thought in his mind, he answered promptly.
"I am not the law," he said, "and all I am interested in now is the release of Fred Cavendish and Stella Donovan.

I'll accomplish that if it has to be over your dead bodies.

Beyond this, I wash my hands of the whole affair.