CHAPTER VI.
THE LAWYER The answer was an unexpectedly sensible one.
"Hunt up her man of business and see what he can do for you.

She cannot get along without money; nor could that statement of hers have got into the papers without somebody's assistance.

Since she did not get it from the fellow we have just left, she must have had it from the only other person she would dare confide in." Ransom answered by immediately hailing a down-town car.
The interview which followed was certainly a remarkable one.

At first Mr.
Harper would say nothing, declaring that his relations with Mrs.Ransom were of a purely business and confidential nature.

But by degrees, moved by the persuasive influence of Mr.Ransom's candor and his indubitable right to consideration, he allowed himself to admit that he had seen Mrs.
Ransom during the last three days and that he had every reason to believe that there was a twin sister in the case and that all Mrs.Ransom's eccentric conduct was attributable to this fact and the overpowering sense of responsibility which it seemed to have brought to her--a result which would not appear strange to those who knew the sensitiveness of her nature and the delicate balance of her mind.
Mr.Ransom recalled the tenor of her strange letter on this subject, but was not convinced.