“And what do you want of me?” piteously asked Mrs. Ladew.
“I might say,” replied Nick, “that I wanted to save you from him, but, to be honest, I have no such purpose. I have told you these things to show you that I know how dangerous is your position. You are in the possession of certain information which I must have and, I tell you now, Mrs. Ladew, that I will use my knowledge of your past three days if you do not give me that information.”
“You know that Mr. Ellison mysteriously disappeared from the Sanborn house after the wedding breakfast.”
“Yes.”
“You know,” Nick went on, “that a man came to the house to see him and that Mr. Ellison left that house in the disguise that man had brought for him.”
“Yes.”
“Who was that man?”
“He was a man from England,” said Mrs. Ladew.
“What was his message to Mr. Ellison that made that gentleman so quickly respond?”