"Yes."
"I find that my other duties will compel me to remain away, but if you will look after the appointment I shall be glad. You can take all the help you need, and make sure of this tramp, and may help break up a bad nest as well. What do you say?"
"I will do it of course."
"Thanks. Now lie here and rest. You need to be recuperated, for the work is hard." "I will do so."
Then bidding his guest good-night, the young engineer left the room.
As he had said it was almost day dawn, and one person was early astir, at least in the city, a man who had been listening at the slightly raised window to the conversation going on between Bordine and the detective.
"It is well," he muttered with a chuckle of delight as he hurried away.
CHAPTER IX.
A BIBULOUS LOVER.
In a pretty bijou of a room one evening sat a girl of nineteen, tall and stately, with a comely face and eyes that were lustrous as stars.