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There followed a sketch of Braceway which was enough to convince the readers that in him Mr. Withers had called into the case the shrewdest man in the South, "very probably the shrewdest man in the entire country." "Evidently," Bristow was thinking when Greenleaf rang the door-bell, "while I'm a 'genius, Braceway's the man everybody relies on when it comes to catching the murderer."
They entered the hotel and sat down in the lobby, now almost deserted. "I think," Bristow announced, careful to keep any note of triumph out of his voice, "I'll go back to Furmville in the morning." He yawned and stretched himself. "I'm about all in, weak as a kitten. What are you planning?" Braceway's chin was thrust forward. He looked belligerent, angry. "I'm going to Baltimore tomorrow.
"Now, see here! We know such a struggle occurred. If you were there, as you say you were, you must have seen it. You couldn't have helped seeing it!" Morley denied it again, and his denial stood against all of Braceway's skill. There had been no struggle, no encounter of any two persons. He clung to that without qualification. Bristow knew how great Braceway's disappointment was.
Braceway's withholding the albino information, playing him for a fool, recurred to him, and the accustomed flush on his cheeks grew deeper. He would not forget that; he would pay it back with interest. He turned to the Loutois case. Going to his typewriter, he made a list of New Orleans, Atlanta, and New York newspapers.
Braceway's incisive tone whipped Greenleaf to closer attention. "You've an embezzler and murderer in your hands. He admits one crime; I've proved the other. The rest is up to you. Put the irons on him. Throw him into a cell! You'll be proud of it the rest of your life. Here's the warrant." He drew the paper from his hip pocket and tossed it to the chief. "Get busy," he insisted.
"Yes; in the grass in the yard. But he denies knowing anything about it." "Of course! And his confession is nothing but a confirmation of the case against him." "Exactly. He seems to want to hang himself. And he'll do it. The grand jury meets next Thursday. He'll be indicted then, and tried two weeks later." "What are the people here saying about Braceway's bitterness against Morley? Anything?"
There was Fulton; he wanted to learn how fully he approved of Braceway's refusal to accept the case against Perry Carpenter. Moreover, it seemed essential now that he discover the whereabouts of Withers. And twenty-four hours could hardly change anything in the kidnapping case. He tore up what he had written, and rattled off: "Held here twenty-four hours longer by Withers case.
No, he decided; the time for that would come after the grinding work in Washington. Bristow himself was far from being a sentimental man. If he had been in Braceway's place, he would have preferred to hear nothing about the girl and her emotions until after the completion of the work. "Are you packed up?" Braceway asked. "Ready to go?" "Almost." "Well, suppose we drift on down to the Brevord.
At last they agreed to Braceway's plan: Morley was to be arrested by one of Major Ross' plain-clothes men when he stepped off the train from Baltimore. It was to be done quietly, so that the news of it would not be in the morning's papers.
The morning papers had got hold of the suspicion of some of the authorities that a man wearing a brown beard and a gold tooth was wanted because of the murder of Mrs. Withers. Although Chief Greenleaf had tried to keep it quiet, it had leaked out as a result of Jenkins' search for traces of the man. Morley had read all this, and Braceway's question upset him. "No," he answered; "I never did.
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