Are you talking about Jimmy Valentine in "A Retrieved Reformation?" Jimmy, an ex safe cracker alias Ralph Spenser, falls in love with the banker's daughter and decides to "go straight." First he opens up a shoe store and wins the approval of his future father-in-law by his seriousness in business and his friendly, outgoing personality. As he makes a place for himself in the small town of Elmore, he decides to definitively get rid of every vestige of his past. He packs up his burglar's tools to give them away, but needs them one more time in a very urgent way. Read the story to find out how!
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