any danger for you. All you've got to do is get the money before
they do, and then see that it goes back where it belongs to-morrow.
Will you? You don't want to see a crime committed to-night if - if
you can stop it, do you?"

Rhoda Gray's face was grave. She hesitated for a moment.

"I'll have to know more than that before I can answer you, Nan,"
she said.

"It's the only way to stop it!" Gypsy Nan whispered feverishly.
"I won't split on my pals - I won't - I won't! But I trust you.
Will you promise not to snitch if I tell you how to stop it, even
if you don't go there yourself? I'm offering you a chance to stop
a twenty-thousand-dollar haul. If you don't promise it's got to
go through, because I've got to stand by the ones that were in it
with me. I - I'd like to make good - just - once. But I can't do
it any other way. For God's sake, you see that, don't you?"

"Yes," said Rhoda Gray in a low voice; "but the promise you ask for
is the same as though I promised to try to get the money you speak
of. If I knew what was going on, and did nothing, I would be an
accomplice to the crime, and guilty myself."

"But I can't do anything else!" Gypsy Nan was speaking with great
difficulty. "I won't get those that were with me in wrong - I won't!
You can prevent a crime to-night, if you will - you - you can help
me to - to make good."

Rhoda Gray's lips tightened, "Will you give me your word that I can