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Thought of the robberies was
quite enough to make him pitiless toward the offender.
"Sending me to prison won't stop it," Mary Turner said, drearily.
"Perhaps not," Gilder sternly retorted. "But the discovery and
punishment of the other guilty ones will." His manner changed to
a business-like alertness. "You sent word to me that you could
tell me how to stop the thefts in the store. Well, my girl, do
this, and, while I can make no definite promise, I'll see what
can be done about getting you out of your present difficulty."
He picked up a pencil, pulled a pad of blank paper convenient to
his hand, and looked at the girl expectantly, with aggressive
inquiry in his gaze. "Tell me now," he concluded, "who were your
pals?"
The matter-of-fact manner of this man who had unwittingly wronged
her so frightfully was the last straw on the girl's burden of
suffering. Under it, her patient endurance broke, and she cried
out in a voice of utter despair that caused Gilder to start
nervously, and even impelled the stolid officer to a frown of
remonstrance.


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