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Come right along out of this and go to Parker's and have a bottle. My nerves are all on the twitch." Weiss rose and put on his hat. The two men left the office together, and climbed into Littleson's automobile. Vine walked thoughtfully down to his club. Amongst the letters which the hall-porter handed to him was one from Stella. He tore it open and read it standing there.
"Nothing of importance," Phineas Duge answered calmly, "but that doesn't alter the fact that she might have done so!" Early the next morning, Littleson's automobile dashed up to the door of Weiss' office. Without even waiting to be announced, its owner pushed his way through the clerk's office and entered the private room of his friend. "Heard the news?" he demanded quickly. "No! What is it?"
"You have not got it!" she repeated contemptuously. "Upon my honour we have not!" Littleson declared. "Perhaps," she said, turning to him, "you will deny that it was you who incited my cousin Stella to come and rob her own father?" The two men exchanged swift glances. Littleson's surmise had been correct then. It was Stella who had succeeded where the others had failed!
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