"
"You will carry it through all right," declared Halloran, confidently.
"My nerve has never failed me so far, and I'm depending on that," said
Kendale, mechanically.
Two hours later Kendale was breakfasting in a fashionable downtown
restaurant, endeavoring to fortify himself with courage for the trying
ordeal which he was about to face.
He had given Halloran his promise to abstain from touching even a drop
of liquor, fully realizing it to be his mortal foe; but with Kendale a
promise amounted to scarcely a flip of his white fingers when it ran
contrary to his own desires.
He told himself that he must have a "bracer" to steady his nerves. It
was not until a second and a third had been drunk that the proper amount
of courage came to him to undertake the dastardly scheme. Half an hour
later he walked boldly into the big dry goods emporium. He had no idea
where the private office was, but his quick wits served him in this
dilemma. Laying his hands on an errand boy who was just passing out,
whose cap bore the name of Marsh & Co.
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