"What is your business?"
"You have a lady confined here--Mrs. Vernon."
The keeper of the asylum changed color and fell back a step.
"Well--er--what do you want?" he stammered.
"We want you to release the lady at once."
"But she is confined here as a--a person of--of weak mind."
"She is all right, and you know it," put in Robert. "If you try to make any trouble for us it will go hard with you, I can promise you that."
"And who are you to threaten me?" demanded Dr. Rushwood.
"I am Robert Frost, Mrs. Vernon's private secretary. Mrs. Vernon has been confined here through a plot hatched out by her worthless nephew, Frederic Vernon, and his tool, Dr. Remington."
"The young man tells the truth," put in Mr. Farley. "If you wish to keep out of trouble you will make us no trouble."