"Don't you pay no attention to him," Katie objected. "Sit still. Have some coffee, Hermann-boy?" But Hermann shook his head. "No, thank you," he said. "I've got chust a minute." "Then what was it you were wishin' to say?" "Aboud dot girl I dalked to you aboud on our vay to Coney. You see now you have a tshob, it seemed like ve might do somesing for her." Katie dropped all trace of banter. "I'll tell you how it is, Hermann," she said, and she did tell him. As soon as she had secured her place, she had determined to help. At present much financial assistance was impossible, and employment there was none. It would be dangerous, moreover, to all concerned--not least of all to Violet--for the girl to make a dash for liberty in any manner that would give to Rose a chance to secure vengeance through her friends the police. But Katie was decided, and Carrie at once agreed, that, could the escape be arranged, Violet might at least be sheltered in Katie's room until some work should be found for her. "All I want to know, Hermann-boy," concluded Katie, "is however in the world we're goin' to get word to her." "Dot's chust vat I vanted fer to tell you aboud," said Hermann. "You know Conrad Schultz. He's now got my route vith de brewery-vagon. De stable's chust two doors round de corner. I've explained to him, und he'll slip a note to Miss Violet the first dime he sees her." "We'll write to-night," said Carrie. "An' I'll hand it to him on my way to work in th' mornin'," added Katie. "Now you run along or you'll be docked." Hermann assented, smiling. He turned to the door, fumbled with the knob, and dropped his cap. Katie, a steaming cup of coffee in one hand, stooped to recover it just as Hermann himself bent forward. In the presence of a third person, the German felt a sudden thrill of courage. "Ach, but you're a goot girl, Katie!" he cried. "Und here's a liddle revard fer it!" He seized his cap, jerked her black head toward him, and imprinted a resounding kiss on her pink cheek. Katie laughed and broke free. She spilled some of the coffee, but she administered a smart blow with her open palm on the offending mouth. "You'd never dared to do it if you hadn't thought I had me hands full!" she called after her lover as he clattered heavily and happily down the stairs. "An' just in revenge for that," she added, still blushing, to Carrie, as she closed the door, "me an' you'll go out for a little spree of our own to-night." "Where to?" asked the factory-girl. "To a dance," answered Katie. "Me feet have got that lazy walkin' after a job that I'm afraid they'll forget all the dancin'-steps they ever knew, unless I hurry an' get some practicin' again." "I don't know," said Carrie, doubtfully, "I've got to get up early in the morning." "An' what about me? Besides, haven't I got me friend, the alarm-clock?" "But my jaw's smashed from that fight." "Who'll see it?" "Let's make it a moving-picture show."