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"Probably a successful blackmailer." For some obscure reason Miss Van Tuyn felt outraged by this opinion of Garstin. "The fact is," she said, but in quite an impersonal voice, "that your mind is getting warped by living always among the scum of London, and by studying and painting only the scum. It really is a great pity. A painter ought to be a man of the world, not a man of the underworld."
"To begin with, I'm not going to be exactly consumed with Corsican revenge because somebody has killed Hook. Perhaps you may guess by this time what Hook was. A damned blood-sucking blackmailer was that simple, strenuous, self-made captain of industry.
At the foot of the steps Rigby was pointing his trembling finger at James Bansemer. "You'll pay for this to-morrow!" he was saying. "Your day has come! You cutthroat! You blackmailer!" "Graydon!" called the father. "Come, let us go home. Come, boy!" "Not now not now," answered the son hoarsely. "I'll I'll try to come home to-night, father. I'm not sure that I can. My place is here with her."
Kershaw's story and Smethurst's letters had both found their way into the papers, and following my usual method mind you, I am only an amateur, I try to reason out a case for the love of the thing I sought about for a motive for the crime, which the police declared Smethurst had committed. To effectually get rid of a dangerous blackmailer was the generally accepted theory.
My point is that if I want to dispossess a nephew, oust a rival, silence a blackmailer, or get rid of an importunate widow, there is nothing in logic to prevent my calling them feeble-minded too. And the vaguer the charge is the less they will be able to disprove it.
"Of course take brevet rank as 'gentleman. An 'M.A. and a gentleman. Lovely!" "And you," shouted the little man, with a sudden spasm of rage "you who presume to lecture me are a man who has been expelled from Cambridge, a man of no means and no profession, a blackmailer a a " He spluttered and stopped for want of epithets. "Blackleg," I suggested, "chevalier d'industrie, and all the rest of it.
We have come to the point where we can go no farther without more or less publicly associating you with our theories. I spoke to Mr. Carroll yesterday, it is true, and I am here to-day to lay my facts before Mr. Wrandall and his attorney, I see. Mr. Carroll chose to call me a blackmailer. He may be correct in his legal way of looking at it. But he is wrong in assuming that MY motives are criminal.
"He said he didn't hev no doubts but wot you was a reg'lar villyum an' swin'ler, an' cheat an' blackmailer, an' ef he had de user his eyes an' legs he'd come down yere an' han' you over ter de coppers; dat you aint smart enuff ter get no money outer him, fer he's bin bled by sich coveys like you all he's a-going ter bleed, an' dat he don't b'lieve dere is any sech ting as de Bugwug estate nohow, an' ef yer wants ter keep outen jail yer'd better let him an' his folks alone."
Betty brought her the twenty dollars and when school was in session, the benighted Libbie sped out to her buried bottle and put the money in it, regaining her room without detection. Two days later there was another demand for money, and two days after that, another. Libbie visited the bottle regularly, afraid to let a day pass lest the blackmailer expose her to the principal.
"Owing to the incredible rumors which are bandied from mouth to mouth here, I regarded it as necessary to bring an action against one notorious swindler and blackmailer. I wanted to convince public opinion that the Embassy had nothing to fear. I intend doing the same thing in the case of all future attempts at blackmail, once we have got a clean slate in regard to all compromising questions.
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