“You’re a smart little girl. Too smart to go around making trouble for yourself. Now if you’re wise you’ll team up with me and I’ll promise you that you’ll come out at the top of the heap.”
“Just what is your proposition?” Penny asked quickly.
Max Laponi was too alert to place himself in any trap.
“If you’re willing to follow my orders I’ll promise you that when I come into my fortune you’ll be well paid.”
“And what are your orders?”
“I’ll tell you after you give me your promise.”
Penny regarded him coldly.
“I’ll promise nothing, Mr. Laponi, except that I intend to see justice done to Rosanna Winters! You and Mrs. Leeds are trying to cheat her out of her rightful inheritance.”
“She’ll never get a cent. If you had an ounce of sense you’d ditch her and come in with us. It’s all fixed—”
“Fixed!” Penny tripped him. “And by ‘us’ I imagine you mean Mrs. Leeds. You’re both hatching some scheme to defraud Rosanna.”