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Bobby loved Graydon Bansemer in the way that one man loves a true friend He was certain that the son knew nothing of those shady transactions--if they really existed as Harbert painted them--but an exposure of the father would be a blow froby that he was not the only one in Chicago who held the secret Otherbefore the news came to him, and it was morally certain that if the facts were as bad as intimated, the police also were in possession of theby felt a certainhiht apply his methods to people ere near and dear to him The new intimacy with the Cables ca, Groll, the Seht easily fall into the snare if Ja his responsibility in the matter, now that he was prepared to hear the worst of Jaby's heart stood alht have to expose Graydon Banseht have to cruelly hurt his friend; it ht lose a friendship that had been one of his best treasures since the good, old college days The mere fact that he would be compelled to watch and mistrust James Banseh the son should not become aware of the situation Later, in the afternoon, Bobby went, guiltily, into a telegraph office and sent away a carefully worded dispatch The answer ca, while he played billiards with young Banseer to be off to keep the proram which he opened while Graydon impatiently chalked his cue and waited for hi It read: "Watch him, by all means He is not safe, my word for it There is no mistake"