“I want to talk with you, Miss Monteith,” he said.

“Who are you?” she asked sharply.

“Mason is the name,” he said. “I’m a lawyer, representing Charles Sabin.”

“What do you want with me?”

“I want to talk with you.”

“What about?”

“About Fremont C. Sabin.”

“I don’t think I have anything to say.”

“Don’t be silly,” Mason told her. “The thing has gone so far now it’s entirely out of your hands.”

“What do you mean?”