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"I have no pals!" she ejaculated, furiously. "I never stole
anything in my life. Must I go on telling you over and over
again?" Her voice rose in a wail of misery. "Oh, why won't any
one believe me?"
Gilder was much offended by this display of an hysterical grief,
which seemed to his phlegmatic temperament altogether unwarranted
by the circumstances. He spoke decisively.
"Unless you can control yourself, you must go." He pushed away
the pad of paper, and tossed the pencil aside in physical
expression of his displeasure. "Why did you send that message,
if you have nothing to say?" he demanded, with increasing
choler.
But now the girl had regained her former poise. She stood a
little drooping and shaken, where for a moment she had been erect
and tensed. There was a vast weariness in her words as she
answered.
"I have something to tell you, Mr. Gilder," she said, quietly.
"Only, I--I sort of lost my grip on the way here, with this man
by my side."
"Most of 'em do, the first time," the officer commented, with a
certain grim appreciation.


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