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"No, you are not," she said, calmly. "You are under my orders
now. And as long as you are working with us, you will break no
laws."
"But I can't see----" Aggie began to argue with the petulance of
a spoiled child.
Mary's voice came with a certainty of conviction born of fact.
"When you were working alone," she said gravely, did you have a
home like this?"
"No," was the answer, spoken a little rebelliously.
"Or such clothes? Most of all, did you have safety from the
police?"
"No," Aggie admitted, somewhat more responsively. "But, just the
same, I can't see----"
Mary began putting on her gloves, and at the same time strove to
give this remarkable young woman some insight into her own point
of view, though she knew the task to be one well-nigh impossible.
"Agnes," she said, didactically, "the richest men in this country
have made their fortunes, not because of the law, but in spite of
the law. They made up their minds what they wanted to do, and
then they engaged lawyers clever enough to show them how they
could do it, and still keep within the law.


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