"I cannot."
"Then my lips must remain sealed."
"I am sorry, miss, but I cannot promise to spare a criminal. I am bound
by professional honor to close in on every criminal whom I can convict."
"Then, as I said, my lips must remain sealed."
"What are your relations to the individual who is a criminal and whom
you desire exempted from the consequences of his acts?"
"He is my brother. Yes, sir, and in coming to you I am betraying my dear
brother; but I would do so only to save him from the consequences of his
crime. If I cannot save him I cannot betray him, but I do think that
when I reveal to you the plot and identities of many criminals in return
I should receive the promise of the exemption of one of them--that one,
my own brother."
"I will not positively declare that I will not make the promise; it will
depend upon the nature of the disclosure. Will you indicate the
character of the disclosure you have to make?"
"I will."
"Do so."
"There is existing in this city a band, an organized gang of the most
skillful criminals on earth. Their organization is so complete that a
discipline as perfect as military order prevails. These men have defied
the police for years; they are doing more harm to the commercial world
than ever was suffered before in many years.
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