Bennett's office."
"By induction," explained Kennedy. "The impulses set up in the
concealed dictograph set up currents in these coils of wire
concealed under the carpet. They were wirelessly duplicated by
induction in the coil about Miss Ashton's waist and so affected
the receiver under her very becoming hat. Tell the rest, Miss
Ashton."
"I heard the deal arranged with this Hanford," she added, almost
as if she were confessing something, "but not understanding it as
Mr. Kennedy did, I very hastily condemned Mr. Travis. I heard
talk of putting back twenty thousand into the campaign accounts,
of five thousand given to Hanford for his photographic work, and
of the way Mr. Travis was to be defeated whether he paid or not.
I heard them say that one condition was that I should carry the
purchase money. I heard much that must have confirmed Mr. Kennedy's
suspicion in one way, and my own in an opposite way, which I know
now was wrong. And then Cadwalader Brown in the studio taunted me
cynically and - and it cut me, for he seemed right. I hope that Mr.
Travis will forgive me for thinking that Mr. Bennett's treachery
was his"
A terrific cheer broke out among the clerks in the outer office.
A boy rushed in with a still unblotted report.
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