In point of fact Labar did not know. But he was pretty sure that the assumption was right. “You may take it from me. Now to whom have you been handing over the money?”

The woman’s mind was clouded by a haze of emotions. She was thunderstruck at the accusation that her sometime lover was the real blackmailer, but beyond that she wondered if this point alone was the real object of the cool nonchalant man who was watching her with serious eyes. She must guard herself. Suppose he was seeking to entrap her.

“I shan’t tell you,” she exclaimed between clenched teeth.