The police, through a talkative deputy coroner, were made aware of all the facts.

Pictures of Miss Trent, Mrs.Carter, Major Hagenback, his wife, and many curious details concerning Mrs.Carter's home were about to appear in the papers when Colonel Gillis and others who were powerful socially and politically interfered; the affair was hushed up, but Mrs.Carter was in distress.

This was more than she had bargained for.
Her quondam friends were frightened away for the nonce.

She herself had lost courage.

When Cowperwood saw her she had been in the very human act of crying, and her eyes were red.
"Well, well," he commented, on seeing her--she was in moody gray in the bargain--"you don't mean to tell me you're worrying about anything, are you ?" "Oh, Mr.Cowperwood," she explained, pathetically, "I have had so much trouble since I saw you.