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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... VII WITH THE GOODS ON CLIFFORD and Mary Regan stood motionless amid the deep hush of the old mansion, gazing steadily at each other, the hand she had given him in seal of their compact closely held in his. Clifford still was thrilled by the confession she had just made, by her offer to help him clear himself and to share with him his long fight against Bradley--and this time help him "on the square." Mary withdrew her hand and broke the long silence. "I don't know all the insides of the affair," she said. "The things I can tell you are really only scraps." "Any kind of scraps will help," Clifford's lips mechanically returned. His faculties, instead of being engaged upon the business of what should next be done, were still possessed by the amazing fact that Mary Regan was at last definitely on his side--that at last the fine woman he had always guessed to be concealed 304 beneath her youthful cynicism had definitely revealed herself. But in another moment his brain cleared to the urgent business that lay before them. "First, about that f 10,000 which Tarleton handed to me and which I handed to Commissioner Thorne and which was found upon Thorne--and which caused Thorne's and my arrest and Bradley's triumph. Bradley never put that up; he's not so free with his own money. Do you know where the ten thousand came from?" "It was part of a fund raised by a syndicate." "A syndicate!" "Headed by that Mr. Philip Morgan. Only the big gamblers and confidence men are in it." "What was the money raised for?" "To do exactly what they did--get you and Commissioner Thorne out of the way. Till that was done, they could not operate." "Then they intend to operate!" Clifford cried eagerly. "You remember the talk we overheard between Mr. Bradley and Mr. Morgan night before las...
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