Answer:
Fear.
Step-by-step explanation:
- Winged Blackmail is a story about fear and greed. Throughout the short story, the reader experiences feelings of fear and tension, similar to those felt by Peter Winn himself.
- At the end of the story, Peter Winn Junior is able to follow the pigeon to its owners house and bring the blackmailer back to his father and the police officers.
- A very tractable prisoner, the man proved.
- Once up in the air, he sat close, in an ecstasy of fear. An adept at winged blackmail, he had no aptitude for wings.