For the iron was hot, it was time to strike.
"I shall go," remarked the detective, "but I shall have to ask this lady to accompany me to Police Headquarters." It required some effort of will to say it.

The suffering which she endured had aroused in him a compassion to which he would have found it easy to yield.

But having repelled the charitable impulse that threatened to wreck his carefully devised plan, he said with added firmness: "I am ready to start as soon as she is." "Why, what do you mean ?" bellowed the lawyer.

"This is an outrage! What the devil do you mean ?" "I mean that Mrs.Collins is under arrest," explained the detective..