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When the club to which Holcombe belonged finally succeeded in getting the Police Commissioners indicted for blackmailing gambling-houses, Holcombe was, as a matter of course and of public congratulation, on the side of the law; and as Assistant District Attorney a position given him on account of his father's name and in the hope that it would shut his mouth distinguished himself nobly.
He wouldn't tackle a blackmailing job of this size without protection; otherwise I could put him out of the way very quickly. I dare say Miss Lynn, herself, doesn't know who is behind him." "Why don't you warn Mr. Hammon at once?" Merkle rolled his head loosely. "You don't know the man.
"And when it is in my possession, I can give it to you for twenty thousand pounds." Lady Agnes laughed in his face. "I am too good a business woman to make such a bargain," she said with a shrug. "Well, you know best," replied Silver, imitating her shrug. "I know nothing; I am quite in the dark as to the reason for your blackmailing, Mr. Silver." "That is a nasty word, Lady Agnes."
At last he was really impressed. Blackmailing is a word which has a very ugly sound in an English lawyer's ears. "If that is really true," he said suddenly, "I almost feel as if I ought to go back to Lacville to-night. I suppose there are heaps of trains?" "You might, at all events, wait till to-morrow morning," said Paul de Virieu, drily.
Moreover, he played the game of life bravely, and spoke with indignant contempt of a banker who, distracted and driven to extremities by blackmailing, had imagined that he would bring a recent scandal to an end by killing himself: a pitiful tragedy, from all the mire and blood of which the scandal had sprouted afresh with the most luxuriant and indestructible vegetation.
Besides, if she had had such a thought, it was impracticable, since Mrs. Dangerfield had come with them. He watched Erebus play her fish for two or three minutes; then it snapped the gut and was gone. "Evidently you're no so good at fishing as blackmailing," said Sir James in a nasty carping tone, for the fact that they had worsted him still rankled in his heart.
"It's all over," shrilled Mrs. Knight. "He won't have it. He's cut them off. He called me a a " Once more she choked in her rage; her teeth chattered. "Wait a minute," Jim cried, roughly. "Let's hear all about it before you bite somebody. Is Wharton sore?" "He's crazy. He said we trapped Bob. He called us grafters and thieves and blackmailing parasites " "Rats! Bob's got money of his own."
Had she been blackmailing her own husband a husband who had dared marry again, believing his deserted wife to be dead and justifying herself by calling it "back alimony?" But wasn't it, in reality, no matter what coercion Nita had used in getting the money, exactly that?... Back alimony! And the price of her silence before the world and the wife who was not really a wife....
It was purely as a means of blackmailing coercion that he started a steamship line to California to compete with the Harris and the Sloo interests. For his consent to quit running his ships and to give them a complete and unassailed monopoly he first extorted $480,000 a year of the postal subsidy, and then raised it to $612,000. The matter came up in the House, June 12, 1858.
Here was this man, Anderson, still coming up to the hotel, on the most friendly terms with Lady Merton and her brother, managing for them, laying them under obligations, and all the time, unknown to Elizabeth, with this drunken old scamp of a father in the background, who had already half-threatened to molest her, and would be quite capable, if thwarted, of blackmailing his son through his English friends!
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