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The eyes opened widely, with startling abruptness, and
looked straight into those of the man who had employed her.
"Would you be humble," she demanded, and now her voice was become
softly musical, yet forbidding, too, with a note of passion,
"would you be humble if you were going to prison for three
years--for something you didn't do?"
There was anguish in the cry torn from the girl's throat in the
sudden access of despair. The words thrilled Gilder beyond
anything that he had supposed possible in such case. He found
himself in this emergency totally at a loss, and moved in his
chair doubtfully, wishing to say something, and quite unable. He
was still seeking some question, some criticism, some rebuke,
when he was unfeignedly relieved to hear the policeman's harsh
voice.
"Don't mind her, sir," Cassidy said. He meant to make his manner
very reassuring. "They all say that. They are innocent, of
course! Yep--they all say it. It don't do 'em any good, but just
the same they all swear they're innocent. They keep it up to the
very last, no matter how right they've been got.


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