“I’m on! Then if we see things are going against her, shut him off!”

“Well, yes, if we can.”

“Of course we can. I’ve money enough for anything—even to buy off Fleming Stone. No man’s too big to be bought.”

“I don’t mean all this exactly as you do, but I do mean this: if Stone can solve the mystery and clear Anita, let him do it. If he finds her implicated, let it be understood by him beforehand, he is to cease investigations.”

Trask thought a minute.

“That goes,” he said; “I agree.”

CHAPTER XV
FLEMING STONE COMES

“Terence.”

“Yes, sir.”

“We’re off for New England.”