"Very well, excellency. We transcribed the addresses of Warren's
gangsters from his note-book, and they have all been arrested. The
men we captured in the earlier skirmishes are all languishing in the
tombs, as accomplices in his crime, as well as for their attempts
against my own life. You will be astonished, Helene, at the
revelations of his operations as shown by his bank-books, a
translation of that diary and some of the letters which I took when
I burglarized his rooms. I have sent a code letter to Phil, advising
him to confess all, and that man's testimony adds to the
corroboration. I went down to the District Attorney with a full
statement of the facts, leaving nothing unbared. Like me, he agreed
that it were best to let the law take its course, demanding the full
penalty, and saving the honor of a dozen families who would have
been dragged into the case, had not Warren laid himself liable by
the murder of his confederate, Taylor. That young man was an
electrical genius--with his brains misguided by his equally
misdirected employer. There is no chance of a miscarriage of
justice, and Warren had accumulated so much money that many of the
victims of his organization can be reimbursed in full."

"You have handled all this with a suspicious skill for a lazy
society man, with no experience in such matters."

Shirley understood the subtle sarcasm of the remark, but he
proceeded unruffled, to lull her suspicious.

"I only tried to cover the points which meant happiness and peace
of mind to others. It was merely a matter of common or garden
horse sense, as we call it in America. Warren has been