I have given them the tip at Scotland Yard and I only
hope they take advantage of it."
"Why single out Mr. Wingate?" she asked, "He certainly is not alone in
his antipathy to your company."
"Don't I know that?" Dredlinton exclaimed angrily. "Don't I get a dozen
threatening letters a day? Men take me on one side and reason with me in
the club. I had a Cabinet Minister at the office this afternoon. I begin
to get the cold shoulder wherever I turn, but, damn it all, don't you
understand that we must have money?"
Josephine regarded him with a cold lack of sympathy in her face.
"I understand that you have had about a hundred thousand pounds of mine,"
she remarked.
"Like your generosity, my dear, to remind me of it," he sneered. "To you
it seems, I suppose, a great deal of money. To me--well, I am not sure
that it was fair compensation for what I have never had."
"What you have never had, you never deserved, Henry."
He flung himself towards the door.
"Josephine," he said, looking back, "do you know you are one of the few
women in the world I can't even talk to? You freeze me up every time I
try. I wonder whether the man who is so anxious to stand in my shoes--"
She was suddenly erect, her eyes flaming. He shuffled out and slammed the
door after him with a little nervous laugh.
CHAPTER XX
Josephine was herself again within a few moments of her husband's
departure.
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