He was under great personal obligations to Edward
Gilder, whose influence in fact had been the prime cause of his
success in attaining to the important official position he now
held, and he would have gone far to serve the magnate in any
difficulty that might arise. He had been perfectly willing to
employ all the resources of his office to relieve the son from
the entanglement with a woman of unsavory notoriety. Now, thanks
to the miscarried plotting of Burke to the like end, what before
had been merely a vicious state of affairs was become one of the
utmost dreadfulness. The worst of crimes had been committed in
the house of Edward Gilder himself, and his son acknowledged
himself as the murderer. The District Attorney felt a genuine
sorrow in thinking of the anguish this event must have brought on
the father. He had, as well, sympathy enough for the son. His
acquaintance with the young man convinced him that the boy had
not done the deed of bloody violence. In that fact was a
mingling of comfort and of anxiety.
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