The Double Cross

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Molly Burke, a big-hearted Irish girl, chose the profession so common to the masculine members of her nationality. She was in the employ of the police department and had engineered many sensational arrests. Strolling in the park, she frequently meets two young lovers and becomes interested in them. About this time the city was being flooded with spurious money and Molly was assigned to locate the counterfeiters. Snake Peters was doing the flooding and he soon enlisted Sammy Dowd, the boy Molly saw in the park. Sammy was out of work and needed the money, even if it was counterfeit. Snake met Leona Laird and tried to take her away from Sammy, telling her the boy was a crook. The girl, troubled, is sought out by Molly. The latter learns of Snake and contrives to meet him. Snake likes her immediately and when she tells him she is a pickpocket he informs her of his counterfeiting plant and asks her to help. Molly consents and, learning the location of the place, has it raided. She is arrested, too, and it is not until the office of the captain of the detectives is reached that Snake learns the girl has outwitted him. Molly saves Sammy, however, and on his promise to never to try again fixes things up for him with Leona.