The Swindler and Other Stories

"And you really think you'll catch him?" she questioned, a note of honest regret in her voice. "Don't you want him to be caught?" He pitched his cigarette overboard and turned to her with less of churlishness in his bearing. She met his eyes quite frankly. "I should just love him to get away," she declared, with kindling eyes. "Oh, I know he's a regular sharper, and he's swindled heaps of people—I'm one of them, so I know a little about it. He swindled me out of five hundred dollars, and I can tell you I was mad at first. But now that he is flying from justice, I'm game enough to want him to get away. I suppose my sympathies generally lie with the hare, Mr. West. I'm sorry if it annoys you, but I was created that way." West was frowning, but he smiled with some cynicism over her last remarks. "Besides," she continued, "I couldn't help admiring him. He has a regular genius for swindling—that man. You'll agree with me there?" "The Swindler and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories by author Ethel M. Dell.