The stocks went down and-- and--well, he took money belonging to his employer to protect his purchases." She waited, perhaps expecting her companion to make some comment.
He did not and again she spoke.
"I know he meant only to borrow it," she declared.

"I KNOW it.

He isn't bad, Mr.Winslow; I know him better than any one and he ISN'T bad.

If he had only come to me when he got into the trouble! If he had only confided in me! But he was proud and--and he didn't.

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