howed his flashing
white teeth, "you never can tell. So it's just as well, perhaps, that it
wasn't permitted to run its course." He paused in the doorway, the trim
maid waiting to show him out. "That you are a friend of Scanlon's means
a great deal to me," said he. "I'd do a great deal for him, for, you
know, he's one of the very best fellows in the world."

And the last thing he saw as he vanished through the doorway was the
undoubted blush which colored the face of Scanlon, and the light in the
beautiful eyes of Nora Cavanaugh, as she turned to look at him.

The Stories In this Series are:

ASHTON-KIRK, INVESTIGATOR
ASHTON-KIRK, SECRET AGENT
ASHTON-KIRK, SPECIAL DETECTIVE
ASHTON-KIRK, CRIMINOLOGIST

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