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290 New York, but he’s got his good points, too—witness his taking Thompson home that night.”

“Yes—he wanted to do anything he could to help me. I intend to look up Jimmy.”

“Do—if you can reform him, the New York police force will be mighty grateful.”

“I’m going to try,” she said, and I rather envied Jimmy.

Godfrey leaned back in his chair with a sigh of satisfaction.

“I think that clears up that affair pretty well,” he said; “and that brings us to the second and more serious one. And first, Miss Croydon, I want to ask you if you think it was just the right thing to let them march Jack Drysdale off to prison when a single word from you might have saved him?”