"Supposing he won't come?"

"Blakely will come if I ask him to."

"And you will do this for me?"

"No; I am not doing it for you."

"Then why--"

"Because I cannot bear to have Blakely act so ungenerously toward
his mother."

"He has but used my own weapons against me," she remarked
thoughtfully.

"Your weapons are quite unworthy of him, Mrs. Porter." "The telegram
must be dispatched at once," she announced, glancing impatiently at
her watch.

"If you will call the office and ask them to send up a boy with some
forms, I will think over what I wish to say," I said.

When the boy arrived I had decided upon my message. It was:

"BLAKELY PORTER, Ventura."

"If you do not return at once with your captive I shall consider
that we have never met."