Come
along.
[STERLING _and_ DR. STEINHART _join the other group Right._
MASON. [_To_ WARDEN.] You're Sterling's broker.
WARDEN. No, not for over a year.
MASON. Then you can't tell me how deep he is in this Hudson Electric
swindle?
WARDEN. Is he in it at all?
MASON. Yes, he says, deep.
WARDEN. I suspected it yesterday.
MASON. But what with--his wife's money?
WARDEN. That went fourteen months ago. I put him on his feet then, gave
him some tips that enabled him to take this house with her mother, so
that with his regular law business he ought to have done very well, but
his living could not leave one cent over to speculate with.
MASON. [_To himself._] Good God!
WARDEN. I know what you're afraid of.
MASON. No!
WARDEN. Yes. The reason I'm no longer his broker is he was ashamed to
let me know about his dealings.
MASON. But you don't mean you think he'd actually _steal_!
WARDEN. His _aunt's_ money? Why not? _He did his wife's!_
MASON. Does he handle any one else's affairs?
WARDEN. I know he takes care of that Godesby woman's property.
MASON. And she wouldn't hold her tongue if a crash came!
WARDEN. Not for a minute! Is Miss Hunter suspicious?
MASON. Yes. Does Sterling realize that to-morrow he will most probably
be a ruined cheat?
WARDEN.
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