She paused.
"For myself," she concluded, "I claim Kitty Carr. I claim the right to take her, to have her treated for her—her disease. I claim it because the real shoplifter, the queen of the shoplifters, Annie Grayson, has worked out a brand-new scheme, taking up a true kleptomaniac and using her insanity to carry out the stealings which she suggested—and safely, to this point, has profited by!"
CHAPTER X
THE BLACKMAILERS
"They're late this afternoon."
"Yes. I think they might be on time. I wish they had made the appointment in a quieter place."
"What do you care, Anita? Probably somebody else is doing the same thing somewhere else. What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose."
"I know he has treated me like a dog, Alice, but—"
There was just a trace of a catch in the voice of the second woman as she broke off the remark and left it unfinished.