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There was nothing in his appearance to betray the detective to the unskilled eye, but years of practice had left Spike with a sort of sixth sense as regarded the force. He could pierce the subtlest disguise. Jimmy had this gift in an almost equal degree, and it had not needed Mr. Galer's constant shadowing of himself to prove to Jimmy the correctness of Spike's judgment.
You can tell me that, I should think, seeing he's an old Timbuctoo friend of yours. Galer's the name he goes by here." "Galer!" "That's the man. And do you know what he had the impudence, the gall, to tell me? That he was in my own line of business. A detective! He said you had sent for him to come here!" The detective laughed amusedly at the recollection. "And so he is, you fool. So I did."
Some inkling of the truth began to penetrate McEachern's consciousness. He had become obsessed with the idea that, as the captive was not Spike, it must be Jimmy. The possibility of Mr. Galer's being the subject of discussion only dawned upon him now. "What do you mean?" he cried. "Who is it that you have arrested?" "Blest if I know.
Galer's voice she thought she recognized as one that she had heard before; but she could not identify it. When the detectives had passed away together down the corridor, she had imagined that the adventure was at an end and that she was at liberty to emerge cautiously from her hiding place and follow them downstairs.
He niver travels without him. Ye've done it. Ye've arristed wan of the bhoys." Mr. Galer's jaw dropped slightly. "He was? He really was " "Ye'd better go straight to where it was ye locked him up, and let him loose. And I'd suggest ye hand him an apology. G'wan, mister. Lively as you can step." "I never thought " "That's the trouble with you fly cops," said his employer caustically.
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