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The time is fresh in my recollection when a different kind of necktie was its pride; when the boy-murderer he was barely nineteen who wore it on the gallows took leave of the captain of detectives with the cheerful invitation to "come over to the wake. They'll have a hell of a time." And the event fully redeemed the promise. The whole Gap turned out to do the dead bully honor.
He had arrived at the conclusion that the neighborhood was sown so thickly with detectives that one could not throw a stone without hitting one. Yet Sin Sin Wa had quietly left his abode and had disappeared from official ken.
The bruised and wrathful face of the policeman who brought him to Mulberry Street, to be "stood up" before the detectives in the hope that there might be something against him to aggravate the offence of beating an officer with his own club, bore witness to it. It told a familiar story.
"Not a trace, lad folks most generally doesn't when the detectives are after 'em. Hold on, though, I won't say Nate was guilty on my own hook. I'm only telling you what happened. I'd hate to believe he was a wrecker, misusing this light to draw vessels on the dangerous rocks; but it looks black, it looks black." "Did the detectives actually accuse Mr. Duncan?" asked Blake.
Politicians declared it was a miracle, but it was a miracle made possible by six months of unceasing toil, during which the suffrage lobby worked from early in the morning until late at night and were shadowed by detectives eager to acquire testimony that would prejudice the legislators against their measure.
"If I press either the button or the trigger it will mean the end of you, you dogs. Now, listen to me. At the foot of the stairs are two policemen and a couple of detectives. They were duped into coming here by the word that a sucker was to be fleeced in Broadso's rooms to- night. All I have to do is to press the button and call for help.
"Who is that little lot?" Clearly, he meant the big man and his diminutive companion. Farrow coughed importantly. "That's Scotland Yard," he said. "Who?" "Detectives from the Yard. Mr. Hilton telephoned for 'em. An' wot's more, they're signalin' to us." "They want us to go back," said Bates. "Mebbe." "There can't be any doubt about it."
The inspector said: "It is the detectives who will find the elephant; hence the reward will go to the right place. If other people found the animal, it would only be by watching the detectives and taking advantage of clues and indications stolen from them, and that would entitle the detectives to the reward, after all.
Stebbing nodded and winked, as if he had been doing business with detectives all his life. "To be sure, sir, to be sure!" he responded with alacrity. "Just between you and me and the door post!-all right. Anything I can do, Mr. Jettison, shall be done. But it's more in the way of what I can tell, I suppose?" "Something of that sort," replied Jettison in his slow, easy-going fashion.
And he also saw the deputy chief at one of the windows of his study, watching the courtyard and keeping in touch with his detectives. "By Jove!" he thought, "he's sticking to his post. It will be a tough job. He suspects something. However, let's make a start!" He went through the drawing-room and entered his study. Weber saw him. The two enemies were face to face.
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