But beyond all their face value, they constituted _prima facie_ evidence against the gambler." "But what's all this to us, now ?" "They were smuggled to New Jersey.

There the Jersey City chief of police took action, and this agent of Penfield's carried the documents across the North River and up to Stamford.

From there he got back to New York again, by night, where he met a second agent, who had secured passage on the _Slavonia_ for Naples.

The first man is MacNutt." "MacNutt!" ejaculated the listening woman.
"Yes, MacNutt! He compromised with Penfield and swung in with him when the district-attorney started pounding at them both.

The second man is a lawyer named Keenan, who was disbarred for conspiracy in the Brayton divorce case.