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"The weighty work in which the eminent statesman is so deeply engrossed," he said, "is called 'The Great Rand Robbery. It is a detective novel, for sale at all bookstalls." The American raised his eyebrows in disbelief. "'The Great Rand Robbery'?" he repeated incredulously. "What an odd taste!" "It is not a taste, it is his vice," returned the gentleman with the pearl stud.
The man in the slouch hat now did the talking, and explained to May as the detectives could tell by his gestures that the mansion to which the garden belonged had its front entrance in the Rue de Grenelle. "Bah!" growled Lecoq, "how much further will they carry this nonsense?" They carried it farther than the young detective had ever imagined.
"She is great in her way much too great for me," said Giuseppe frankly. "She should have been a Medici or a Borgia; she should have lived many centuries sooner, before policeman and detective officers were invented. You stare and think I lie. But I do not lie. I see very clearly indeed. I look back at the past and the veil is lifted.
"It all came about through you," he blundered on. "You told me of the fellow you saw riding away from The Whispering Pines at the time you entered the grounds. I passed the story on to the coroner, and he to a New York detective they have put on this case. He and Arthur's own surly nature did the rest." I cringed where I lay. This was my work.
They assumed various guises, and though they employed all their cunning to escape observation they did not succeed in fooling any one. Of limited intelligence, they fulfilled their duties without inspiration, tediously, greyly, and dully. Soon the children learned to recognize the detectives. Even at a distance they would say at the sight of a suspicious character: "There goes a detective!"
Usually, for example, when a murder was to be committed, a member would be brought in from an outside district in order that he might not be recognized if discovered, and he would be aided in escaping after the crime. Finally the president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad procured a Pinkerton detective named James McParlan who went into the region and remained for two years.
You are breathing as if you had been running, but you're rather pale round the gills." "I have had an adventure." "You are always having adventures. You're the luckiest fellow alive." "This adventure is somewhat out of the usual order," declared Frank. "It might furnish material for a detective story." "Whew!" whistled the dark-haired lad. "Now you are making me curious. Reel it off for us."
From the table the evilly-smiling man took the handcuffs, and grasping the unresisting arms of the unfortunate Gratz, bent them with cruel force until the hands met behind the gradually stiffening back. There was a sharp click, and the next instant the manacles embraced the wrists of the detective.
The world, that great detective had found, was indeed a small one. From its scattered four corners, into which his subterranean wires of espionage stretched, would in time come some inkling, some hint, some discovery.
"Mounseer Gillflower," replied Joseph; "and he was very kind to me." "I am a Frenchman, Joseph; and, if you don't want to go fishing, I will employ you to take care of my boat, and carry my valise to a hotel," continued the detective, as he handed an English sovereign to him, for he had taken care to provide himself with a store of them in New York.
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