Is Lang's threat merely a threat?
Would he, after all, actually have the letter given to Adare?
If these letters are his trump cards, why did he try to have him killed?
Would not Adare's death rob him of his greatest power ?" "In a way, M'sieur.

And yet with Le M'sieur gone, both Josephine and Miriam would be still more hopelessly in his clutches.

For I know that he had planned to kill me after the master.

My brother had not guessed that.

And then the women would be alone.