They stood together for one blissful moment listening to the loud knocking below, then, hand in hand, they descended the dark stairway to admit the Tracer of Lost Persons.
CHAPTER XVII
On the thirteenth day of March, 1906, Kerns received the following cable from an old friend:
"Is there anybody in New York who can find two criminals for me? I don't want to call in the police.
"J.T. BURKE."
To which Kerns replied promptly:
"Wire Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, N.Y."
And a day or two later, being on his honeymoon, he forgot all about his old friend Jack Burke.