CHAPTER IX.
THE INHERITED SIN 1.
"Getting kind of used to these courthouse shows, aren't you, Lenora ?" Quest remarked, as they stepped from the automobile and entered the house in Georgia Square.
Lenora shrugged her shoulders.

She was certainly a very different-looking person from the tired, trembling girl who had heard Macdougal sentenced not many weeks ago.
"Could anyone feel much sympathy," she asked, "with those men?
Red Gallagher, as they all called him, is more like a great brute animal than a human being.

I think that even if they had sentenced him to death I should have felt that it was quite the proper thing to have done." "Too much sentiment about those things," Quest agreed, clipping the end off a cigar.

"Men like that are better off the face of the earth.

They did their best to send me there." "Here's a cablegram for you!" Lenora exclaimed, bringing it over to him.
"Mr.Quest, I wonder if it's from Scotland Yard!" Quest tore it open.