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But President Moss reminded him curtly that I had done nothing of the kind, and that ended it. One of the early and sensational results of reform in Mulberry Street was the retirement of Superintendent Byrnes. There was not one of us all who had known him long who did not regret it, though I, for one, had to own the necessity of it; for Byrnes stood for the old days that were bad.
"I regret that it was necessary to detain you so long." "I have no complaint to make against you," said Jones. "It was that man's work, and he shall pay for it." He scowled at Nick, and then, after bowing to the superintendent, walked out of the room with his wife on his arm. "Shall I call a man?" asked Byrnes. "If you please," said Nick. "My force is pretty busy."
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Bowery found a lot of young men attending its meetings who were homeless, and their endeavour to solve this problem resulted in the fitting up of a large dormitory on Spring Street. Somebody Ex-inspector Byrnes says a Mr. Howe saw a business opportunity in the philanthropy and copied the dormitory.
On the other hand, beyond a passing frown scarcely perceptible, even in the bitterness of debate, I have not seen Byrnes otherwise than smiling, but when one sat close to either and saw their eyes flashing fire, one could realise the strength and sincerity of both.
Meanwhile we will send a messenger for the witness, John Flint, whose testimony seems to me to be of the greatest importance." "Proceed just as you wish," said Byrnes. The messenger was summoned, and dispatched. While they waited for him Nick reviewed in the presence of the superintendent and Deever the evidence against Jarvis. Some of it, as the reader knows, was news to Deever.
He does not disguise his satisfaction at Inspector Byrnes' opinion that "he had so deeply studied combination locks as to be able to open them from the sound ejected from the spindle." For the rest, he recognises that he is merely a workman, like another, earning his living, and that nothing can be accomplished save by ceaseless industry and untiring toil.
Pocketing his notes, he ate dinner alone and in due season thereafter he went home and to bed. But before this, he sent off a night lettergram to the Byrnes private detective agency down in Park Row. He wanted so in effect the message ran the best man in the employ of that concern to call upon him at his bachelor apartments in the Hotel Sedgwick, in the morning at ten o'clock.
Superintendent Byrnes will not swallow that story." "Is it any more wonderful," said Nick, "than what I saw the doctor do in his laboratory?" The story of that night he had already told to Deever and the superintendent. "Very little, if any," said Byrnes. "I passed that night, or supposed that I passed it, at my home," said the doctor. "I took an opiate, and seemed to sleep.
There seemed no hope in the Senate, but Miss Gordon appealed to Senator Byrnes to call it from the calendar. There was active lobbying among the opponents, but it finally passed and was sent to the voters! In the campaign for it the Newcomb College Alumnae, the State Nurses' Association and the Federation of Women's Clubs were very active, but it was defeated.
I travelled backwards and forwards; I crossed over to France, and came back again with a slight clue, which ended in my discovering that, wild and dissipated himself, he had left one child, a son, of yet worse character than his father; that this same Hugh Fitzgerald had married a very beautiful serving-woman of the Byrnes a person below him in hereditary rank, but above him in character; that he had died soon after his marriage, leaving one child, whether a boy or a girl I could not learn, and that the mother had returned to live in the family of the Byrnes.
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