Does anybody know of your affairs with me ?" "No one." "No confidential friend, eh ?" "None." "No one who has access to your secrets?
No--no--woman?
Excuse me, Phil," he said, as a peculiar look passed over Demorest's face, "but this is business." "No," he returned, with that gentleness that used to frighten them in the old days, "it's ignorance.

You fellows always say 'Cherchez la femme' when you can't say anything else.

Come now," he went on more brightly, "look at the letter.

Here's a man, commercially educated, for he has used the usual business formulas, 'on receipt of this,' and 'advices received,' which I won't merely say I don't use, but which few but commercial men use.

Next, here's a man who uses slang, not only ineptly, but artificially, to give the letter the easy, familiar turn it hasn't from beginning to end.