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“I'll shout if I like,” cried Todhunter truculently. His very vehemence seemed to, in part, sober him up and he went on sneeringly, “I've got the upper hand of you Mr. Funny Mason, and the sooner you take it in the better for you. I know all about you and you're in the dark about me!” “Oh, I am, am I?” commented Mason mildly. “Well, go on, Mr. Todhunter, and tell me what you know about me.” “Know about you!” exclaimed Todhunter fiercely. He leant forward across the narrow table which separated them. “I know you're up here on blackmail. You're going to blackmail that old Colonel about his wife being married to him under that false name.” He laughed scoffingly. “You told me you had known that all along, but it was a damned lie and you had never heard a word about it until old Parrot dug up