CHAPTER XIX. DAN AS A GOOD SAMARITAN.
"What made your husband treat you so badly?" asked Dan.
"Rum!" answered the woman. "Rum has been sinking him lower and lower, and it's easy to see the end."
"What will be the end?"
"The prison—perhaps the gallows."
"You are taking too dark a view of your husband," said Dan, soothingly. "He won't go as far as that."
The woman shook her head.
"I know him only too well," she said. "This very evening he has been planning a burglary."
Dan started, and a sudden suspicion entered his mind.
"Did you hear him doing it?" he asked.