Of course I can't do much while the
police and others are so darned interested in me, so if you accept
we'll just date the agreement from the time I'm cleared."
"You're on, son--and we'll just date the agreement from the present
moment, A.D." Again Hunt gripped Larry's hand. "You're all to the
good, Larry--and I'm not giving you half enough."
That provided Larry with the opening he had desired. "You can make it
up to me."
"How?"
"By helping me out with a proposition of my own. To come straight to
the point, it's Maggie."
"Maggie?"
"I guess you know how I feel there. She's got a wrong set of ideas,
and she's fixed in them--and you know how high-spirited she is. She's
out in the world now, trying to put something crooked over which she
thinks is big. I know what it is. I want to stop her, and change her.
That's my big aim--to change her. The only way I can at this moment
stop what she is now doing is by exposing her. And mighty few people
with a wrong twist are ever set right by merely being exposed."
"I guess you're right there, Larry."
"What I want is a chance to try another method on Maggie. If she's
handled right I think she may turn out a very different person from
what she seems to be--something that may surprise both of us."
Hunt nodded.
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