WITH proper management this affair need never have got into the newspapers, since no whisper of an alarm had been raised. But Mme. Storey disdained to conceal it; on the contrary, she informed the press herself.
“It would make such a good story, it would be a shame to keep it from them,” she said in her provoking way.
Of course, as I was to learn later, this publicity was necessary to the plan that was even then shaping itself in her mind; but I couldn’t guess that in the beginning.
Well, you can imagine what a sensation was created by the news. The famous Mme. Storey held up in her own office by a pair of youthful bandits! To come as it did, right on the heels of her brilliant success in the Harker case, when her name and fame was on everybody’s lips, gave point to the tale. While the
