“Not if you want to make a sleuth out of me.”

“I don’t—in a sense.”

“But you want me to get in with this young lion and get the worst of the bargain.”

Carter thought a moment.

Was there not some other way of bringing this man to time?

Nick had befriended him once, had saved him from a term up the river; and now he needed him.

Jack Redmond was a clever, all-around crook, and, at the same time, he knew how to spy and do anything that required wits and cunning.

Suddenly Nick turned again to the man and said:

“You know Margie?”

At this Redmond started and seemed to shiver.