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"I can only repeat to you what I told you once before," she said. "If you are picturing Jocelyn Thew to yourself as a blackmailer, or anything of that sort, you are wrong. I am under the very deepest obligations to him." "But surely," he protested, "you have paid your debt, whatever it was?" "He admits it." "And yet the terror remains?" "It remains," she repeated sadly.
Did you ever accept an annual, or other fee conditioned on your not taking any action against a corporation?" "While in receipt of such refrainer I beg you pardon, retainer did you ever prosecute a blackmailer?"
Marteen was a blackmailer, an extortioner that was the truth, the truth that he would not let himself recognize. Her depredations probably had much wider scope than he guessed. He must save her from herself; he must somehow reach the submerged personality and awaken it to the hideousness of that other, the soulless, heartless automaton that schemed and executed crimes with mechanical exactitude.
Thinking at first that it was a voice from Heaven, he believed himself damned; and then, when the voice began to ask for money, he saw that he was being victimized by a shrewd blackmailer to whom Debienne himself had fallen a prey.
"I must have the two thousand to-night, same as usual." Jones had the whole case in his hands now, and he began preparing the toast on which to put this most evident blackmailer when cooked. His quick mind had settled everything. Here was the first obstacle in his path, it would have to be destroyed, not surmounted. He determined to destroy it.
"Rather!", said the Twins with one quickly assenting voice. She had not missed Sir James' sentence about the superiority of Erebus' blackmailing to her fishing. But she knew the Twins far too well to ask them for an explanation of it before him. None the less it clung to her mind. At supper therefore she said: "What did Sir James mean by calling you a blackmailer, Erebus?"
The managers did not hesitate; without wasting time in asking how these confounded communications came to be delivered in an office which they were careful to keep locked, they seized this opportunity of laying hands, on the mysterious blackmailer.
But presently, when she heard Lise sigh, she could contain herself no longer. "I don't see how you can read such stuff as that," she exclaimed. "It's it's horrible." "Horrible?" Lise repeated. Janet swung round from the washbasin, her hands dripping. "Instead of getting seventy five thousand dollars she ought to be tarred and feathered. She's nothing but a blackmailer."
Then you could arrange with the prison doctor that this person was informed of my young master's death. 'Very well, we can try that, but a blackmailer is not so easily thrown off the scent. Once he has tasted blood he is a human man-eating tiger.
Last night I watched. To-day I learned learned that you, Mr. Drummond, were nothing but a blackmailer, using these gamblers to do your dirty work. Haddon, they would have thrown you out like a squeezed lemon as soon as the money you had was gone. They would have taken the bribe that Drummond offered for the stock and they would have left you nothing but jail.
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