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"I have known for some considerable time that Bath was in low water," Renton went on. "I discovered by accident that he was using his ward's money. A little later on I made another discovery. A foreign scoundrel was blackmailing Bath. I investigated that matter, and by degrees I gradually learnt the part that Bath had played over the Lone Star. I could do nothing, because I could not prove my points. I cast about for some way out of the difficulty, and hit upon my ingenious scheme of bringing Bath and Cathcart face to face. But I need not go into that.
Fortune gave me plenty of opportunity. I was a guest under Bath's roof: I was more or less engaged to his ward. But I had to play a part there.