There was the launch, with Parker and his three 'friends' in it, headin' two-forty for blue water.
"'Let 'em go,' says old Gabe, contented.

'I wouldn't arrest 'em if I could.

This is no police-station job.' "It come out afterwards that Parker was a young chap just from law school, who had gone to work for the firm of shysters who was attendin' to the Gordon interests.

They had tracked Sterzer to the Old Home House, and had put their new hand on the job of gettin' that agreement.

Fust he'd tried to shine up to Grace, but the shine--her part of it--had wore off.