Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott

“ Nothing was too hideous to be possible if such a firm as the Mack Syndicate had undercover dealings with Dan Grogan.
Such a condition of corruption was the kind of thing which, above all else, Richard Wentworth loved to fight. And, when the happiness of a young girl was also at stake, he asked for nothing better.
But he wondered grimly whether in this case the odds against him were not too great to overcome. A man must die in less than one hour and a half. Could he stop the execution? He was in a taxi in Central Park. ”

“ It was usually where danger and excitement dwelt that Richard Wentworth might be found.
It was this liking for danger which had brought him, that night, to Grogan's restaurant whose sinister secret, if uncovered in time, would, he believed mean the saving of many lives and much misery.
As the taxi rolled northward, Wentworth lit a cigarette with his free hand and watched Molly as she began to recover consciousness. He was, he knew, in a difficult situation. No man can tell how a strange woman will come out of a faint. Some women snap back to full life very quickly ”

“ Young girls have their lives wrecked, and old men are made foolish by the clinging playthings of Broadway. There are robberies, murders and even more ugly crimes committed behind the backs of the drivers. A passer-by catches but a glimpse, and the driver is often too bored to look into the little mirror which reveals what is going on behind him when the blinds are not drawn to cut off his view.
As the taxi sped away from Grogan's Restaurant with the man and the unconscious girl, the driver suspected that something was wrong. ”