It was a blackmailing scheme, pure and
simple, but he paid it. He is a man. He took his medicine like one."
David glowed. He felt the blood surge to his head; he grew warm with
suppressed joy.
"When did this happen?" he asked, the tremor of eagerness in his
voice.
"Oh, I don't remember--three or four years ago. It really never came
to a public trial. He settled her infamous claim out of court. Her
lawyers hounded him as if he were a rat."
"I happen to know that Mrs. Braddock was part owner in the show," he
said quietly.
"But he had already bought her out," she exclaimed. "He wrote all of
this to me, after it came out in the papers. I had the whole story
from him, just as it really happened. No, Mr. Jenison, he was
compelled to pay twice."
He was half smiling as he looked into her face. The smile died, for he
saw in the features of Bob Grand's daughter a startling resemblance to
the man himself, hitherto unnoted but now quite assertive. A moment
before he had thought her pretty; now he realized that he had scarcely
looked at her before. There was the same beady, intent gleam in her
dark eyes, which were set quite close to each other over a straight
nose with rather flat nostrils.
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