. You did that to help yourself. Shut up! Don't
try to deny it. I know!"

Barney did not attempt denial. Barlow went on:

"And the second thing I want to tell you, and tell you hard, is this:
You gotta turn in some business! The easy way you've been going makes
it look like you've forgot I've got hold of you where the hair's long.
Young man, you'd better remember that I've got you cold for that Gregory
stock business--you and Old Jimmie Carlisle. Got all the papers in a
safety-deposit vault, and got three witnesses doing stretches in Sing
Sing. Keep on telling yourself all that! and keep on telling yourself
that, if you don't come across, some day soon I'll suddenly discover
that you're the guilty party in that Gregory affair, and I'll bring down
those witnesses I've got cached in Sing Sing."

Barney moved uneasily in his chair. He knew the bargain he had made, and
did not like to dwell upon the conditions under which he was a licensed
adventurer.

"No need to rag me like this, Chief," he protested. "Sure I remember all
you've said. And you're not going to have cause to be sore much longer.
There'll be plenty doing."

"See that there is! And see that you don't pull any raw work. And see
that you don't let your foot slip. For if you do, you know what'll
happen to you. Now get out!"

Barney got out, again protesting that he would not be found failing. He
was not greatly disturbed by what Barlow had said. Every so often there
had to be just such sessions, and every so often Barlow had to let off
just such steam.

Barney's errand was done. The police of the city were on Larry's trail
and his share in the matter was and would remain unknown. Thus far all
was well. He had no doubt of Larry's early capture, now that he was
back in New York, and now that the whole police force had been promptly
warned and were hotly after him, and now that all avenues of exit would
instantly be, in fact by this time were, under surveillance and closed
against him--and now that every refuge of the criminal world was only a
trap for him. No, there wasn't a doubt of Larry's early capture. There
couldn't be. And once Larry was locked up, things would be much better.
Barlow would see that Larry didn't talk undesirable things, or at least
that such talk was not heard. It wasn't exactly pleasant or safe having
Larry at large, free to blurt out to the wrong persons those things
about Barney's being a stool and a squealer.

Greatly comforted,