"I dare not see them! I am afraid!" faltered the guilty woman.
"Why should you be afraid? Have you done anything wrong?" demanded Cissy, sternly, for a terrible suspicion was troubling her mind.
The woman shot her a keen glance, and asked:
"Have you betrayed me?"
"No."
"Then I will see them, but they must have made a mistake. I am not the person they want."
Putting on an expression of bravado, she followed Cissy to the presence of the two men, who both rose and bowed profoundly, though they read the signs of guilt in her ghastly face. Then the detective said:
"Miss Erroll, will you kindly favor us with the address of your lover, Mr. Clifford Standish?"