Then this slip of a girl had outwitted him after all, and had hired a lawyer without his knowledge or consent.
“You cannot mean what you say, Helen,” he said presently.
“Every word,” was her short answer.
“Then I shall have to make arrangements to-night. You will have to excuse me.”
While he was saying this, Nathans was ushered into the room as the girl went out by another door.
“I was just wanting you, Nathans. The girl has stepped over the traces, and has asked me to leave here to-morrow, when she becomes of age, and asks for control of her property.”
“Then she dies to-night,” decided the Jew. “You cannot give her any statement or I will be without the money you have borrowed of me. Now is the time to get rid of her.”
“I don’t know how.”
“I do. You send for her, and let me teach you a thing or two.”
As Nellie went out she heard the bell give a long ring, and waited in the hall to see who it might be. Arkwright, the detective, walked in.