was all right. I didn't do any harm."

Nick assured Harrigan that if he acted right in this case his license
would be safe, and then left the man to his slumbers.

"Not very promising, is it, my boy?" said Nick to Patsy, as they went
downstairs. "We've lost the trail as soon as we struck it."

"Do you think he's giving it to us straight?"

"Yes; he doesn't know where he took the men nor what became of them
after they left his cab."

"It's a pity he had such a jag. He'd have been the best witness in the
case."

Nick smiled.

"If he hadn't been drunk he wouldn't have had anything to do with the
case," he said.

"What do you mean?"

"Why, it's clear enough. This man that we want saw Harrigan on that cab
while the man was on his way to the restaurant with the woman. Then when
it became necessary to get Corbut out of the way, he remembered the
drunken cabman, and hired him."

"I don't see how you know that."