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"That made him jump, but he didn't say or do anything, so I got up and
went--and--the same woman was in the park with the same boys yesterday,
and they're the biggest little devils there. What's the answer?"
"A heartbroken man," said Douglas Bruce. "Now let me tell you, Mickey."
Then he told Mickey all he knew of James Minturn.
"All the same, he ought to be able to do something for his own kids,
'stead of boys who don't need it _half_ so bad," commented Mickey. "Why
honest, I don't know one street kid so low that he'd kick a little girl--
after she'd been beat up scandalous, for his meanness to start on. Honest,
I don't! I don't care what he is doing for the boy he has got, that boy
doesn't need help half so much as his _own_; I can prove it to you, if
you'll come with me to the park 'most any morning."
"All right, I'll come," said Douglas promptly.
"Well I couldn't say that they would be there this minute," said Mickey,
"but I can call you up the first time I see they are."
"All right, I'll come, if it's possible.


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