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"It's another man's secret, I tell you. I've got to buy it." "I'll make it a thousand." Young Dodd's face was white, but he knew how desperate his case was and how vitally necessary it was to play his cards as he held them. "I gave you final figures," he whispered. "Where is that man? Let me deal with him." "It must be done through me." "If you wasn't my nephew I'd think this was blackmail."
Upon assurance that Average Jones was "safe" he led the way to the rooms so hastily vacated by the spirit of the Turkish guest. "We've succeeded in keeping two recent suicides and a blackmail scheme in this hotel out of the newspapers," observed the manager morosely. "But this would be the worst of all. If I could have known, when the Turkish Embassy reserved the apartment "
"She makes herself out plainly as an accessory after the fact." "A woman doesn't understand these legal niceties. She wrote that out to clear herself in case she was arrested for the blackmail, and perhaps in case Braddock refused to help her as he certainly did, if you remember." "He was hard on her," confessed Archie slowly. "Being such a villain himself," said Random grimly.
Sanderson hesitated a moment before answering; in fact, he appeared so torn between inclination and duty; anxious to give me whatever information I deemed necessary, yet hemmed in by the instructions with which his master had limited him, that at last I waved my hand and said: 'You need not reply, Mr. Sanderson. That third party is the crux of the situation. I strongly suspect him of blackmail.
Perhaps he may succeed, and, in any case, he will be almost certain to ruin my chances of success that is, if I were not willing to buy him off. He would be pretty sure to try blackmail if he found he could not make good use of the knowledge he had stolen." "The wretch!" cried Margaret. "Do you suppose he hopes to snatch from you the discovery of the pole?"
And I know as well as you do that, if you get into serious trouble through this loan, at least five men we could both name would have to step in and save the bank and cover up the scandal. You'll blackmail them, just as you've blackmailed them before, and they you. Blackmail's a legitimate part of the game. Nobody appreciates that better than you."
It's blackmail, pure and simple. I wonder Huntley dare tackle it. It might mean five years' penal servitude for him." "He'd give you away before he went to penal servitude," Violet remarked. "You may make yourself jolly sure of that." Saton passed his hand across his forehead. "Phew!" he said. "How stuffy this place is! Violet, I wish you'd go round to Huntley, and talk to him.
After a year of two of starvation struggles to get on with the legitimate, he packed up his scruples and laid them away temporarily, he said. He resorted to sharp practice, knavery, and all the forms of legal blackmail; it was not long before his bank account began to swell. His business thrived. He was so clever that not one of his shady proceedings reacted.
A reform in this direction would not solve the basic problem, for there would remain full opportunities of blackmail and extortion, but it might still remove a menace to the health of the community which is probably more serious than tuberculosis. A statute to this end was enacted in New York State a few years ago: an act for the medical examination of the women.
You were not ruined by blackmail, you were crushed by a law of progress as resistless as the law of gravity." The doctor's gray eyes flashed with sudden inspiration. "If the law of gravity is unjust it will be abolished. If civilization is unjust it must be put down. There can be no contradiction in life when once we know the truth. I can't compromise with Bivens I refuse his generosity.