“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.