CHAPTER XV.
On hearing the ominous word, arrest, Mrs.Collins trembled and grew cold.

She looked entreatingly from the detective to the lawyer, as if seeking some explanation of this new and entirely unexpected blow.
Britz, noting the helpless bewilderment of the woman, experienced a painful contraction of heart, as if it were ordained that he must share the suffering which he had inflicted on her.

Presently she lifted her face to his in a look of silent protest, and he felt a stinging sense of shame at the shabby part he was compelled to play.

But he remained firm.
"I am sorry, but I must insist that this lady come with me," he said with a note of sad determination in his voice.
"Oh, you're sorry!" echoed Luckstone ironically.

"You'll be sorrier before you're through with this case.