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Updated: June 17, 2025
At the door of my room a tall figure awaited me, and when I recognised it as that of one of my chief's most trusted 'stand-bys, who seldom left New York, I began to wonder. He had been directed to my quarters, he said, and finding the surroundings to his liking, had awaited me there. He was not slow in making known his business, and he began with the query: 'Have you got Delbras?
She had no love for her mistress's husband, and she seemed to have remembered against him every unkind deed or word spoken or done to her 'Missis Susie. Delbras she had ever feared and hated, and Smug she despised as the coward decoy of the gang. For Harry she expressed a liking.
After considering long, we decided not to bring the name of Delbras into the case, or to attempt to set any watch upon him in the regular way. To 'locate' Delbras should be our own especial work, and to freshen our memories we reviewed the information furnished our chief by the French commissaire.
'The very fact, he finally resumed, 'of finding Delbras in a Turk's fez and playing the "jay" for one of their theatres shows that you're right, Carl. Well' getting up suddenly and catching his hat from off the floor 'we didn't exactly come here to play; and as for disguises why, we've played at that game ourselves.
At last the crime was traced to Delbras, through the revelations of a second woman, who, finding that the man she had believed in hiding had really crossed the ocean and left her behind, had at once avenged herself by putting into the hands of the police the means by which they had traced the crime home to Delbras. 'You must not arrest the fellow, Jeffrys had said. 'Leave that to me.
And now, with his own weapon in hand and those of Delbras collected on the table at his side, he was compelling the Frenchman to make his toilet at the point of the pistol, and his set face left in the mind of the enraged and baffled rascal no room to doubt him when he said: 'Unless you have put on those garments within a reasonable time I will call a pair of policemen to dress you; and if you make one sound or movement other than in obedience I will shoot every bullet in this weapon into your body, and do it with pleasure.
In the meantime, since the night of the attack upon Lossing, the brunette, Bob, Delbras, Smug all had vanished utterly. Neither in Midway nor elsewhere, as Turks or gentlemen of leisure, were they seen by Dave, myself, or the boy Billy. 'But they're here all right! Dave declared, 'and if we don't find a new gap in the fence somewhere soon, I don't know the gentry!
'Carl, wake up that imagination factory of yours and tell me, or make a guess at least, why we don't run upon Greenback Bob, Delbras, or even Smug, to say nothing of that invisible pedestal-climber of yours, any more? 'Easy enough, I replied wearily. 'They're sticking close to business, and they don't show, at least by day, in the grounds any more.
As I sprang to place my lantern upon the table at the bed's head, that it might help me to see and to aid Lossing, a shriek rang from the room at the rear, and the next moment I saw the knife sent flying from the hand of Delbras, and the two go down, still struggling.
I had also placed a man upon Stony Island Avenue, armed with minute descriptions of Smug, Greenback Bob, Delbras, and the brunette, and with instructions to watch the cafés and houses upon a line with the Fair-grounds, and especially within a certain radius within which we knew parties of their peculiar sort were received 'and no questions asked.
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