"He has no other motive in all this but to do what he has pledged himself to do—make Los Angeles a better place to live in. He is purely an altruist. When he has accomplished what he has set out to do he will retire from public life altogether with the satisfaction of knowing he has stood for law and order and decency, that he has done something for the city in which he lives and which he loves. That will be his only reward, the satisfaction he feels within himself."
She paused, her eyes downcast.
"There is one other reward—that is, he says it will be a reward—that he tells me he will claim if he is successful," she said, softly.
He knew what she meant and he wondered if she would say it.
"There is a girl he loves and who believes she loves him," she said.
So, perhaps, Brennan had guessed it when he speculated, "Sometimes it's a girl."
"The girl, has she—the reward, has it been promised him?" he asked.
He saw the tinge of crimson steal into her cheeks.
"She—it has," she answered, softly.