sure you will not suffer for what you have done by being faithful
to your mistress. Only be patient a few days. Go live with some
of your folks. I will see that you are placed again."

The girl was profuse in her thanks as she dried her tears and
departed.

"I hadn't anticipated having my hand forced so soon," said Craig
after she had gone, leaving her address. "However, we are on the
right track. What was it that you were going to tell me when
Marie came in?"

"Something that may be very important, Craig," I said, "though I
don't understand it myself. Pressure is being brought to bear on
the Star to keep this thing out of the papers, or at least to
minimise it."

"I'm not surprised," commented Craig. "What do you mean by
pressure being brought?"

"Why, Close's lawyer, Lawrence, called up the editor this morning--
I don't suppose that you know, but he has some connection with
the interests which control the Star--and said that the activity
of one of the reporters from the Star, Jameson by name, was very
distasteful to Mr. Close and that this reporter was employing a
man named Kennedy to assist him.

"I don't understand it, Craig;" I confessed, "but here one day
they give the news to the papers, and two days later they almost
threaten us with suit if we don't stop publishing it."