"Help! Murder! Thieves!" screamed the old woman.
Then the door opened, and Mark Mason burst into the room, followed by Tom Trotter.
"What's the matter, Mrs. Mack?" asked Mark.
"This man is going to rob me," answered the old woman. "Oh, save me!"
"It's a lie!" said Jack Minton. "Just ask this woman who I am. She knows."
"Who is he, Mrs. Mack?"
"It is my nephew, Jack Minton. He——"
"Do you hear that? I'm her nephew, come in to make her a call after a long time."
"What are you doing to her?" demanded Mark suspiciously.
"Trying to stop her infernal racket. You'd think I was murdering her by the way she goes on."