CHAPTER XII.DEAD IN HER CARRIAGE.
Nick sat down to study the package Mrs. Constant had given him, having some knowledge of the persons the package was supposed to tell about.
He knew Albert Constant had been a man of no occupation in life, living on his income; that his family was wealthy, and about the most exclusive in the city.
That his marriage to Blanche had been violently opposed by it, not alone because she was an actress, but because she was of that rank of life which his family believed was much below his own.
He also knew that Albert Constant had quarreled with his family because of this marriage, and as a consequence had withdrawn from society.
Of Eric Masson he knew less. That he moved in the same social circle as that in which the Constants were leaders he did know, and t
