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This is so frequently the case that the statement created no surprise. "What is your name?" inquired the attendant. "Ben Barclay," answered Conrad readily. The ticket was made out, the money paid over, and Conrad left the establishment. "Now I am in funds!" he said to himself, "and there is no danger of detection. If anything is ever found out, it will be Ben who will be in trouble, not I."
Detection had stalked out of the unknown and touched him upon the shoulder. Somewhere in that labyrinth his enemies were sleeping. But one human being could shield him from them, and he a lad without home or friends, penniless and a wanderer. He drew back from the window, saying that the hours of suspense must be brief and that his will should prevail with this lad, at whatever sacrifice.
One branch of the clairvoyant trade which formerly brought as much money to their pockets as any other department of their business, was the finding lost or stolen property, and giving directions for the detection of the thieves.
The Ortolians were to work on Earth, aiding in the detection of attacks by means of their mental investigation of the enemy. "Well good-bye, Dad. Don't know when I'll be back. Maybe twenty-five thousand years from now, or twenty-five thousand years ago. But we'll get back somehow. And we'll clean out the Thessians!" He entered the ship, and rose into space.
"Let's get the rope and file first," said he, and to Bursley they went for those implements to defeat the law, Ripton procuring the file at one shop and Richard the rope at another, with such masterly cunning did they lay their measures for the avoidance of every possible chance of detection.
At West Point such things were once possible, but the introduction of long rows of gas lamps put an end to it by illuminating the camp so that the pranks could not be performed without the greatest danger of detection. At Fardale the gas lamps were missing, and a dark night during the first weeks of each yearly encampment was certain to be a wild night.
The girl had worn heelless buckskin shoes at the time she was taken from the Lotus, and these left little or no spoor in the well-tramped earth of the narrow path; but a careful and minute examination on the part of Theriere finally resulted in the detection of a single small footprint a hundred yards from the point they had struck the trail after ascending the cliffs.
She scraped about in the inky darkness, but her fingers touched nothing. The babe's mother had forgotten to put out the pail! Until the coming of the Dominie and his wife, Tess had had but little fear, but now her breath came spasmodically. There was danger of detection if she crept into the kitchen to obtain the milk. If she could only get into Kennedy's barn!
Yet, five days after this, two months after the first danger had passed, a re-enforcement of United-States troops arrived at Fort Moultrie; and, during the same month, several different attempts were made by small parties of armed negroes to capture the mails between Charleston and Savannah, and a reward of two hundred dollars was offered for their detection.
She must have cared more for Jake than she had ever let on, for she took to her bed when she heard that he was dead. Amid the deepest excitement further schemes for the apprehension of the criminals who had so long baffled detection were set on foot and but this is not a story of crime; it is the story of a wooing, and I must not suffer myself to be drawn away from the narrative of that wooing.
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