So I drew her arm through mine and we hurried toward Sixth Avenue,
where we took an up-town car.

We had reached Herald Square when it occurred to me that my companion
did not seem to know her destination. So we descended there. I
intended to order a taxicab for her, had forgotten the dog, but now the
beautiful creature came bounding up to us.

"Where are you going?" I asked the girl. "I will take you to your
home--or hotel," I added with a slight upward intonation on the last
word.

"I do not know where I am going," she answered slowly. "I have never
been in New York until to-day."

"But you have friends here?" I asked.

She shook her head.

"But are you really carrying eight thousand dollars about with you in
New York at night?" I asked in amazement. "Don't you know this city is
full of thieves, and that you are in the worst district?"

For a moment it occurred to me that she might have been decoyed into
Daly's. And yet I knew it was not that sort of place; indeed, Daly's
chief desire was to remain as inconspicuous as possible. It was very
difficult to get into Daly's.

"Do you know the character of the place you came out of?" I asked,