discuss Carmelita's part in the affair even with his own lawyer or his uncle.
"Very well," Kendall said finally, concealing a slight exasperation. "Here's what the newspapers are saying about it."
He pulled the yellowest of the New York yellows out of his coat pocket and Dudley saw the screaming headlines:
The scavengers of the press were on the job early. They had evidently been doing some detective work around the countryside.
"Did you make the threat that you would kill him?" Dudley admitted that much. "There's no use denying that things look mighty black for you, Drake," the lawyer went on. "You threaten to kilt this man and the next thing his servants find him on the floor, shot, and you are alone in the room with him with a gun in your hand. You admit in the presence of the doctor and a policeman that
