This is an outrage! On what charge do you arrest this lady ?" "On the charge that she has guilty knowledge of the murder of Herbert Whitmore," returned Britz.
"It's absurd," railed Luckstone.

"Ridiculous! Why don't you accuse her of having killed Mr.Whitmore ?" "Perhaps I may," said Britz challengingly.
"It would be just like you blundering policemen," sneered the lawyer.
"Mrs.Collins, a lady of refinement, a gentlewoman in every sense of the word--is she to be dragged to Police Headquarters like a common felon?
You have observed her conduct here to-day.

You've seen her anxiety for the depositors of this institution.

Her only thought was to save them from financial loss.

Why, search her entire life and see whether you can discover a single base act that she has committed." "My interest is confined to the Whitmore case," said Britz.
All this while Mrs.Collins sat outwardly resigned but inwardly rebellious against the injustice which was about to impose on her the humiliation of imprisonment.