And more than that, the man seemed to take a perverted pleasure in attaching to himself young enthusiasts of the radical type, eager to follow him as the disinterested leader of a group of Reds, and then betraying them into the most sordid sort of crime.

Cleggett found--and could imagine the grimace of malevolent satisfaction with which it had been written--this note: Heinrich is about ready to leave off talking his cant of universal brotherhood, and make a little easy money in the way I have shown him.
It will be interesting to see what happens in side of Heinrich when he realizes he is not an idealist, but a criminal.

Will he stick to me on the new lay?
But those Germans are so sentimental--he may commit suicide.
Cleggett recalled the manhandling Heinrich had received.

A little farther along he came upon this entry: The Italian-American boy is a find.

Jones and Giuseppe! Puritan father, Italian mother--and he worships me! It will be a test for my personal magnetism, the handling of Gieseppe Jones will.