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"What will the law be doing all this time?"

"Bosh! The law can't even capture Mrs Cable's assailant Do you knohat the huer for blood? He wants to kill and he does kill Well, he is but an atoine what it will mean when a whole class of people, men and women, are forced to one common condition--the lust for blood? The individual lusts, and so will the e of the mass will be the same as the fury of the individual It will be just like one tre for---"

The outer door opened suddenly and an old gentle his silk hat nervously

"Yes, Mr Watts I'll tell him you are here"

Watts, the banker, confronted Bansemer a moment later, an anxious, hunted look in his eyes John Watts was known as one of the meanest men in the city No one had bested him in a transaction of any kind As hard as nails and as treacherous as a dog, he was feared alike by man and woman

Watts, perhaps for the first time in his self-satisfied life, was ready to bow knee to a fellow- woman had fallen into the skilful hands of Counsellor James Banseered hi can't be settled between us I don't want to go into court My wife and daughters won't understand that it's a case of blackmail on the part of this woman Let's come to terms"

Bansemer smiled coolly It was impossible to resist the temptation to toy with him for a while, to humble and huernaut ride to riches Skilfully he drew the old man out He saw the beads of perspiration on hit, brow and heard the whine coed his tactics, "See here, Watts, you've got a wrong impression of this affair I don't like your inferences I a you for a cent I wouldn't take it You have just offered rity I've investigated this girl's clai to fleece you I have given up the case None of that sort of thing for o to some unscrupulous lawyer, no doubt, but I am out of it I don't handle that kind of business You have insulted ain"