"Now you may come in, Detective Carter. I am about ready to go with you."
Nick at once entered the chamber.
Cervera had changed her evening dress for a complete suit of black, and was standing in the middle of the room.
"I suppose," said she, staring icily at the detective, "that I ought to thank you for your consideration."
"Don't trouble yourself," said Nick, curtly. "I have no time to waste."
"Yet just one word, Detective Carter, before we go."
"Let it be brief, then."
"You are said to be a very clever man, and no doubt you think you have me dead to rights in this case," said Cervera, with a mocking curl of her thin lips.
"Decidedly so."
"Yet you will find, Detective Carter, that a clever woman can always fool and foil a clever man."