"It would be your word against his, and they would take his every
time. You can't go and have Dan Waterman arrested as you could any
ordinary man. And think of the notoriety it would mean!"
"I would like to expose him," protested Lucy. "It would serve him
right!"
"It would not do him the least harm in the world," said Montague. "I
can speak quite positively there, for I have seen it tried. You
couldn't get a newspaper in New York to publish that story. All that
you could do would be to have yourself blazoned as an adventuress."
Lucy was staring, with clenched hands. "Why, I might as well be
living in Turkey," she cried.
"Very nearly," said he. "There's an old man in this town who has
spent his lifetime lending money and hoarding it; he has something
like eighty or a hundred millions now, I believe, and once every six
months or so you will read in the newspapers that some woman has
made an attempt to blackmail him. That is because he does to every
pretty girl who comes into his office just exactly what old Waterman
did to you; and those who are arrested for blackmail are simply the
ones who are so unwise as to make a disturbance.
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