e husband.

"There's a document," he said gruffly. "It's a letter from one Helen
Morris, in which she sets forth the interesting fact that she pulled off
a theft in the Emporium, for which your Mrs. Gilder here did time. You
know, your father got your Mrs. Gilder sent up for three years for that
same job--which she didn't do! That's why she had such a grudge against
your father, and against the law, too!"

Burke chuckled, as the young man took the paper, wonderingly.

"I don't know that I blame her much for that grudge, when all's said and
done.... You give that document to your father. It sets her right. He's
a just man according to his lights, your father. He'll do all he can to
make things right for her, now he knows."

Once again, the Inspector paused to chuckle.

"I guess she'll keep within the law from now on," he continued,
contentedly, "without getting a lawyer to tell her how.... Now, you two
listen. I've got to go out a minute. When I get back, I don't want to
find anybody here--not anybody! Do you get me?"

He strode from the room, fearful lest further delay might involve him
in sentimental thanksgivings from one or the other, or both--and Burke
hated sentiment as something distinctly unprofessional.

* * * * *

When the official was gone, the two stood staring mutely each at the
other through long seconds. What she read in the man's eyes set the
woman's heart to beating with a new delight. A bloom of exquisite rose
grew in the pallor of her cheeks. The misty light in the violet eyes
shone more radiant, yet more softly. The crimson lips curved to strange
tenderness.... What he read in her eyes set the husband's pulses to
bounding. He opened his arms in an appeal that was a command. Mary went
forward slowly, without hesitation, in a bliss that forgot every sorrow
for that blessed moment, and cast herself on his breast.

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