You can
gamble on that!"
Mary permitted herself to laugh mockingly in the face of the
badgered official.
"Thank you for telling me," she said, graciously. "And let me
say, incidentally, that Miss Lynch at the present moment is
painlessly extracting ten thousand dollars from General Hastings
in a perfectly legal manner, Inspector Burke."
"Well, anyhow," Burke shouted, "you may stay inside the law, but
you've got to get outside the city." He tried to employ an
elephantine bantering tone. "On the level, now, do you think you
could get away with that young Gilder scheme you've been
planning?"
Mary appeared puzzled.
"What young Gilder scheme?" she asked, her brows drawn in
bewilderment.
"Oh, I'm wise--I'm wise!" the Inspector cried roughly. "The
answer is, once for all, leave town this afternoon, or you'll be
in the Tombs in the morning."
Abruptly, a change came over the woman. Hitherto, she had been
cynical, sarcastic, laughing, careless, impudent. Now, of a
sudden, she was all seriousness, and she spoke with a gravity
that, despite their volition, impressed both the men before her.
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