"It means, that this case of the robbery and the murder of the express messenger is not the simple thing I thought. There is a crime within a crime." "What in the world do you mean?" "Just this, Norcross, the banker, is mixed in the crime, and Heaven only knows how many more men quite as prominent as he. The express-robbing syndicate is a strong one, and hard to beat." "But you'll beat it yet.