"And she had
me winging, too!" he confessed. "Yes, I admit it." He turned to
the girl admiringly. "You sure are immense, little one
--immense!" He smiled somewhat more in his official manner of
mastery. "And now, may I have the honor of asking you to accept
the escort of Mr. Cassidy to our gallery."
Aggie sprang to her feet and regarded the Inspector with eyes in
which was now no innocence, such as had beguiled him so recently
from those ingenuous orbs.
"Oh, can that stuff!" she cried, crossly. "Let's get down to
business on the dot--and no frills on it! Keep to cases!"
"Now you're talking," Burke declared, with a new appreciation of
the versatility of this woman--who had not been wasting her time
hitherto, and had no wish to lose it now.
"You can't do anything to us," Aggie declared, strongly. There
remained no trace of the shrinking violet that had been Miss
Helen Travers West. Now, she revealed merely the business woman
engaged in a fight against the law, which was opposed definitely
to her peculiar form of business.
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