noon
A thousand ideas flew through our minds at once . Had she perceived the import of our last visit and was she now on her way to complete her plotted slander of Millicent Hazleton , though it pulled down on herself in the end the whole structure ? Hastily Kennedy called Hazleton 's home , Butler , and one after another of Hazleton 's favorite clubs . It was not until noon that Butler himself found him and came with him , under protest , to the laboratory . `` What is it -- what have you found ? '' cried Butler , his lean form a-quiver with suppressed excitement . Briefly , one fact after another , sparing Hazleton nothing , Kennedy poured forth the story , how by hint and innuendo Maudsley had been working on Millicent , undermining her , little knowing that he had attacked in her a very tower of strength , how Veronica , infatuated by him , had infatuated him , had led him on step by step .