"I got a reason for asking. She is or she ain't. Which is it?"
"We'll not discuss my daughter's affairs."
"All right, since you're so damned particular. We'll discuss Bromfield's. I warned him to keep his mouth shut or he'd get into trouble."
"He was released from prison this afternoon."
"Did I say anything about prison?" Durand asked. "There's other kinds of grief beside being in stir. I've got this guy right."
"Just what do you mean, Mr. Durand?"
"I mean that he hired me to get Lindsay in bad with you and the girl. He was to be caught at the Omnium Club with a woman when the police raided the place, and it was to get into the papers."
"I don't believe it," said Whitford promptly.
"You will. I had a dictagraph in the room when Bromfield came to see me. You can hear it all in his own voice."
"But there wasn't any woman with Lindsay at Maddock's when the raid was pulled off."