"'Should I be detained,' said the woman, 'you will go to my daughter and assure her I am in no danger?'
"'I will go with pleasure.'
"'You will not wait till morning? You will go at once?'
"'I will go straight from the station.'
"'Heaven reward you! Believe a suffering, much-wronged woman, sir, your confidence is not misplaced.'
"They had not time to exchange another word; they were at the station door.
"The Inspector was within, taking the night charges, and our reporter saw with satisfaction that it was an officer with whom he was acquainted.
"'Good-evening, Mr. Jealous,' he said.
"Inspector Jealous looked up. 'Hallo,' he said, 'what brings you here?'
"'I come on behalf of this lady,' replied our reporter, 'against whom a policeman on duty on the Thames Embankment has a groundless charge to make.'