He turned sharply round again. "What do you want me to do?" he asked angrily.
"Send for Gotch—send for him now this moment—and tell him that you have changed your mind. You will arrange to let him have the money he has asked for, and he can go off as soon as he likes."
"I'm to say I've changed my mind?"
"Yes, of course. You don't want to set him wondering."
"Then he will let this woman, Clark, know——" He began to speak more slowly.
"Yes. I shall go back to-morrow morning and see her. I shall have a hold over her, and she will certainly keep quiet, for her own sake."
"She will be liable to prosecution if the truth becomes known from any other source."
"It won't be. She is the only person who knows anything."
"And I shall have compounded a felony too, if it becomes known."
"No. That isn't so. You will have nothing to do with her at all. You will never see her."