"Nothing like it," answered Hugo, hurriedly. "Besides, he is likely to leave a large part to charitable institutions."
"Not if you can prevent it," thought Fitzgerald.
"It is useless!" he said aloud. "I am not to be bought."
"What, then, do you require?" asked Hugo, desperately.
"I require you to leave the country, and acknowledge Robert Rudd as your cousin."
"Never!" said Hugo, fiercely.
"Very well!" said Fitzgerald, rising.
"What are you going to do?" asked Hugo, anxiously.
"To leave you to your fate! Within a few hours you will be arrested on a charge of complicity in an attempted murder."
"Stay!" exclaimed Hugo, now thoroughly alarmed. "How far has this gone? Surely you have not revealed anything to Robert Rudd?