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"It may be so, although that is rather a cynical way of looking at the matter. But you are really Joe Bart?" "Yes. And quite at your service. Only keep this quiet." "Certainly. I quite appreciate your reasons for wanting the matter kept quiet. But see here, Mr. Morley I shall call you so." "It will be better," replied the ex-detective cheerfully, "and I have a sort of right to the name.
What did Ransford tell us about Bryce and this old Harker think of that! And yet, according to Bryce, Harker is one of our old Yard men! and therefore ought to be above suspicion." Mitchington suddenly started as if an idea had occurred to him. "I say, you know!" he exclaimed. "We've only Bryce's word for it that Harker is an ex-detective.
Under this promise Miller agreed to go, and Ammon procured a man named Enright to take Miller to Canada, saying that "he was an ex-detective and could get him out of the way." Ammon further promised to forward to Miller whatever money he might need to retain lawyers for him in Montreal.
Mallalieu dropped into the nearest chair: dropped as if he had been shot. His face, full of colour from the keen air outside, became as pale as his partner's; his jaw fell, his mouth opened; a strained look came into his small eyes. "Gad!" he muttered hoarsely. "You you don't say so!" "It's a fact," answered Cotherstone. "He knows everything. He's an ex-detective. He was there that day."
The few pencilled words contained nothing but an address: Number 15, 100th Street, East. "Lucky man!" Sogrange sighed. Peter made no remark, but he was thoughtful for the next hour or so. The ex-detective proved to be an individual of fairly obvious appearance, whose complexion and thirst indicated a very possible reason for his life of leisure.
The police had a habit, said Myler, of working like moles underground. How did Stoner know that some of the Norcaster and London detectives weren't on the job already? They knew by that time that old Kitely was an ex-detective; they'd be sure to hark back on his past doings, in the effort to trace some connexion between one or other of them and his murder.
"General N-e-w-r-y." "N-o-u-r-y is the way he spells it," interposed the ex-detective. "Sit down, Captain. He is a general of the highest rank in the army of Morocco, and he prefers to cruise under this title." "If this is the steamer of Ali-Noury Pacha, it is time for me to leave."
Put safely away, of course, while you were doing your time. Let's see it was a Building Society that you defrauded, wasn't it? Mallalieu was treasurer, and you were secretary. Yes I remember now. The amount was two thous " Cotherstone made a sudden exclamation and a sharp movement both checked by an equally sudden change of attitude and expression on the part of the ex-detective.
"How like a Frenchman," he exclaimed, "to take no account of seasons! Never mind, Marquis, you shall give your order and I will sketch the waiter's face. By the by, if you're in earnest about this expedition to-night, put your revolver into your pocket." "But we're going with an ex-detective," Sogrange replied. "One never knows," Peter said carelessly.
From the moment in which Mallalieu had discovered that Kitely knew the secret of the Wilchester affair he had prepared for eventualities, and Kitely's death had made no difference to his plans. If one man could find all that out, he argued, half a dozen other men might find it out. The murder of the ex-detective, indeed, had strengthened his resolve to be prepared.
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