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I introduced Miss Cunningham to him, described the accident, and left him to do what he could for the injured ankle. Afterwards I had still the joy of driving to Park Lane with her in anticipation. I was only called when Dr. Byrnes was ready to send his patient away.
On the fifth he had him brought up through a tortuous way, where the tools he had used in murdering his partner were displayed on the walls as if by accident. Led into the Inspector's presence by the jailer, he was made to stand while Byrnes finished a letter. Then he turned his piercing glance upon him with a gesture to sit.
"I've done my turn at police headquarters reporting, and I can tell you, Craig, it's no place for a college professor. Crime is just crime. And as for dealing with it, the good detective is born and bred to it. College professors for the sociology of the thing, yes; for the detection of it, give me a Byrnes."
A 'trade' was the general resort sought for the son of the chief of a clan, landholder, or gentleman. "This gave rise to Swift's observation to Pope: 'If you would seek the gentry of Ireland, you must look for them on the coal- quay or in the liberty. Byrnes, who carried on the business of a rope-maker.
The sweat stood out on Flint's forehead, but when the proper arrangements had been made, he took the oath and told his story. "And now, Dr. Jarvis," said Nick, "it is my very agreeable duty to recommend that you be discharged from custody." "What!" cried Jarvis and Deever in the same breath. "Superintendent Byrnes, I appeal to you," Deever exclaimed.
The amendment to Article 210 was introduced by Martin Manion in the House and William Byrnes in the Senate. In the interim between the sessions Mrs. O. W. Chamberlain, legislative chairman, had rolled up a monster petition from all sections of the State and the favorable report of the committee was followed by the required two-thirds vote in the House.
"Yes, you will," said Byrnes, in a voice that secured obedience. "It acquits the doctor, I say," continued Nick. "He could never have lifted that body to the top of the wall. There's a physical impossibility in the way of a belief that he is guilty. "It takes a very strong man to raise a dead body weighing one hundred and seventy-five pounds above his head in the manner described by Prescott.
But, chained as he was in the meanness and smallness of it all, he was yet cast in a different mould. Compared with his successor, he was a giant every way. Byrnes was a "big policeman." We shall not soon have another like him, and that may be both good and bad. He was unscrupulous, he was for Byrnes he was a policeman, in short, with all the failings of the trade.
The murderer, looking out, saw his other pal led in a prisoner. He looked at Byrnes. The Chief nodded: "Squealed, both." It was a lie, and it cost the man his life. "The jig is up then," he said, and told the story that brought him to the gallows. I could not let Byrnes go without a word, for he filled a large space in my life. It is the reporter, I suppose, who sticks out there.
He put his trust in Patsy's fidelity. "I shall hold you and Flint under arrest," said Superintendent Byrnes to Deever. "Dr. Jarvis, you may go when you wish." Nick, Chick and Dr. Jarvis left the room, after the last-named had expressed his thanks to those concerned in his deliverance. Nick went at once to Nyack. It was very late when he reached there.
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