“Stay around. Marway would like to meet you.”

“I thought he had never been seen by a criminal?”

“You’re not a criminal. You only think you are.”

Fay leaned over the table.

“I’m a dub,” he admitted. “I’ll let you put it all over me.”

“And I let you go free with my best wishes,” said Saidee Isaacs. “Turn for turn, Chester. Don’t write to prisons and give your address in code lettering. I had orders to come here and arrest you—about a week ago.”

Fay flushed. She was gone across the short-cropped turf.

“I’m a dub,” he repeated, “and yet I wouldn’t have had it happen any other way for the world.”

THE END

Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the July 10, 1922 issue of Blue Book magazine.