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interested. The girls are going to hold a meeting out on Dempsey Street.
Why don't you take Miss Wynrod out there and let her see for herself? If
she's any kind of a girl she'll hear some yarns that'll wilt her collar,
I'll bet."

Good was thoughtful. "That's not a bad idea. I'll see what I can do." He
turned to go. Then he looked back from the doorway. "By the way,
Bassett, I forgot to tell you--Miss Wynrod has a young brother. He's
been a waster so far, but I think he's got some good stuff in him.
Anyway, he's coming into the paper too. Of course he doesn't know
anything about newspapers--he doesn't know anything about anything--but
he can learn. I thought it would be best to start him in the business
office. What do you think?"

"That's the most important place to him," said Bassett sourly. "Keep him
out of this end of it, for the love of Mike! Jenkins loves cubs; I
don't."

"I think you're right; anyway we'll start him with Jenkins. And I'll let
you hear from me to-night in plenty of time about this story."

"The bull-dog closes at eleven."

"I'll let you know by ten."

As Good ate his frugal dinner in a cheap restaurant, he debated
seriously as to the best method of attaining his end. If he went
straight to Judith and boldly requested her acquiescence in the course
planned, he felt quite confident of securing it. But that did not appear
to him sufficient. Her sympathies, thus gained, would be superficial. To
be of lasting value they must be spontaneous. Finally he took his
resolution and went to the telephone.

"Miss Wynrod," he said immediately when she answered, "there is to be a
meeting on the west side to-night that I'd like very much to have you
attend. I am sure it will interest you. Will you come?" And when she
hesitated momentarily he added, "I am quite sure you won't regret it."
To his great delight she assented readily enough, and half an hour
later he found himself in her limousine with her, bound for a section of
the city that was probably as unfamiliar to her as the heart of China.

Briefly he explained the character of the meeting, but diplomatically he
held back his real purpose in taking her to it. She was frankly
interested, nevertheless, and plied him with questions regarding its
circumstances and causes, to which he was not slow in making reply.

"If all these dreadful things are true, how does it happen that I have
never heard about them? There has never been anything in the papers.