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264 quite harmless, not at all like the—the other subjects."

"No. I'm not nearly so keen on it as I was on the Blackthwaite and Jubb removals," said I, humoring her.

"Those were quite right; we couldn't do anything else. And after all we didn't really remove them," she said with some content.

"Well, not in the strict sense of the word; and we're not going to remove the gentle Gutermann either in that fashion."

"Still I don't see why we're helping Mr. Driver rob him. He's not objectionable," she said frowning.

"That isn't quite what we're doing. We're only preventing him from taking part in some ingenious scheme for plundering the British Public devised by his partner. In fact we're doing him a moral service," I said.

"I wish we could get out of it," she said.

"We must think of the Children's Hospital," I said firmly. "Every time a financier is balked Humanity is benefitted."

"But won't Mr. Driver plunder the British Public just as much?"

"Not just as much. Two thieves are thicker than one—they steal more. But of course the British Public will be plundered, and we can't