MRS. E.
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CHARTERIS
H——!
EBBSMITH
(waving the letters tauntingly under his wife’s eyes)
C!
(Mrs. E. endeavours to speak. She tries to summon courage to ask Ebbsmith how and where he got the carelessly-guarded, incriminating letters, but her lips are muffled through fear. Ebbsmith waits patiently, sneeringly. Then, seeing his wife’s hopeless struggle to phrase the question——)
EBBSMITH
(quietly taking a five dollar bill from his wallet, and holding it aloft, with a significant smile)