I intend, for the sake of the little girl upstairs, to solve all this mystery, to take her away from it if I can." Louis' eyes had narrowed.

The look in his face was almost enough to make one afraid.
"It is a pity," he said.

"Even if you had chosen to remain neutral--" "I should not do that unless I could see as much of Miss Delora as I chose," I interrupted.
"If that were arranged," Louis said slowly,--"mind, I make no promises,--but I say if that were arranged, would it be understood between us that you stopped your search for Mr.Delora, and abandoned all your inquiries ?" "No, Louis," I answered, "unless I were convinced that Miss Delora herself was implicated in these things.

Then you could all go to the devil for anything I cared!" "Your interest," Louis murmured, "is in the young lady, then ?" "Absolutely and entirely," I answered.

"Notwithstanding what you have told me, and what I have surmised, the fact that you stood by me in Paris would be sufficient to make me shrug my shoulders and pass on.
I am no policeman, and I would leave the work of exposing Delora to those whose business it is.