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"But I think it is!" said Percival hotly. "You don't know how far a thing of that sort might go. Suppose the detective had arrested you before he saw the doctor or you had a chance to explain? It would have taken a long time to explain things away." "I do not think so," Jack replied. "I have friends enough in town to say nothing of the Academy.
"But, my dear Cadbury, the lady is in Meran, and Vienna is some hundreds of miles away. How could a lady in the Tyrol pawn diamonds in Vienna without her absence being commented on? or do you think she had an agent to do it for her?" Again the detective smiled indulgently. "No, she had no agent. The diamonds never left Vienna.
"He could guess easy enough who was employing Carrington, because I had suggested getting a detective, only Simon wouldn't rise to it. But as to saying I suspected you, he knew that was a lie, and I can only suspect he's getting a little tired of life!"
The detective, having thus surrounded him, threw off his disguise. "My man," said he, "I ought to have done this job in your house. But I looked at the worthy old gentleman and his gray hairs. I thought I'd spare him all I could. I have a warrant to arrest you for forgery!"
It's fully understood, is it not? I alone am to know everything; and you will communicate with me here direct, by the telephone, if any serious incident should arise." The Chief of the Detective Police had scarcely gone off, by way of an adjoining salon, when the usher reopened the door communicating with the ante-room: "Monsieur le President du Conseil."
"If that poor drowned corpse is my son's: is my poor Charles!" "It is rather you who can tell me, sir," said Juve, impassive as ever. There was a pause. Despite his emotion, M. Rambert seemed to be thinking deeply. Suddenly he appeared to make an important decision, and raising his eyes to the detective he spoke very slowly: "Have pity, sir, on a broken-hearted father.
If you can move that needle to a point which I know, and which it is difficult but not impossible to reach, you may congratulate yourself on being in luck." Stimulated by this encouragement from the detective, Charles Rambert exerted all his force upon the lever, only afraid that he might not be strong enough. Juve stopped him very soon.
I am so fortunate as to count Shamrock Jolnes, the great New York detective, among my muster of friends. Jolnes is what is called the "inside man" of the city detective force.
In the first room there is a birth, in another a death, in a third a sordid drinking-bout, and the detective and the Bible-reader cross upon the stairs. High words are audible from dwelling to dwelling, and children have a strange experience from the first; only a robust soul, you would think, could grow up in such conditions without hurt.
How naïvely he had confessed his thought that he would have made a great detective or a great criminal; and here he was only a dealer in curios. Well, I had had the same thought, more than once and here was I, merely a not-too-successful lawyer. Decidedly, M. Armand and myself had much in common! The coroner's inquest was held next day, and my surmise proved to be correct.
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